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Care Workers’ Readiness for Robotization : Identifying Psychological and Socio-Demographic Determinants
2020
Successful implementation of robots in welfare services requires that the staff approves of them as a part of daily work tasks. In this study, we identified psychological and socio-demographic determinants associated with readiness for robotization among professional Finnish care-workers. National survey data were collected from professional care workers (n = 3800) between October and November 2016. Random samples were drawn from the member registers of two Finnish trade unions. The data were analyzed with regression models for respondents with and without firsthand experience with robots. The models explained 34–39% of the variance in the readiness for robotization. The readiness was posit…
Children’s Disclosures of Physical Abuse in a Population-Based Sample
2020
Few studies have explored the disclosure of child physical abuse although child sexual abuse disclosure has been widely studied and debated for years. The present study explores the characteristics of child physical abuse disclosures and compares them to previously published findings on child sexual abuse disclosure from the same data. The data consist of a representative sample of 11,364 sixth and ninth graders. Participants responded to a wide variety of questions concerning experiences of violence, including child physical abuse and child sexual abuse, in the Finnish Child Victim Survey conducted in 2013. Within this sample, the prevalence of child physical abuse was 4.1%. Children repo…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates : The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
2019
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictions in ECEC entitlement in three municipal councils serve as the data for this study. By using the framework of epistemic governance, we identify three differing constructions of the ECEC’s societal functions in the municipal policy debates. The simi…
Domestic Violence Interventions in Social and Health Care Settings: Challenges of Temporary Projects and Short-Term Solutions.
2020
Social welfare service and health care providers are in a key position to implement successful domestic violence (DV) interventions. However, it is known that DV intervention and prevention work is often lacking in coordination and continuity. In addition, the limited resources, hectic work pace, and changing practices negatively affect the development of successful ways to prevent and intervene in DV. This qualitative study involving 11 focus groups, composed of social welfare and health care professionals ( n = 51) in a midsized Finnish hospital, examined the challenges and possibilities within DV interventions and the adoption of good practices produced by a DV intervention development …
Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform : The Finnish experience
2019
The literature on the Ghent system has focused on the link between voluntary unemployment insurance and union membership in terms of industrial relations. Less attention has been paid to unemployment benefits and employees' decision-making concerning unemployment insurance, even though the core function of the Ghent system is to provide unemployment insurance. This paper examines both of the options that precarious workers (i.e., part-timers, temporary employees, and low-skilled service employees) choose regarding unemployment insurance membership and the change in union density after the Ghent system reform in Finland. First, the results show that the growth of the independent unemployment…
Problems of the Polish labour market against the backgrounds of the EU countries after 2004
2011
The situation in the labour market in the contemporary world is the subject of continual surveys and analyses. Particular attention in those surveys is focused on unemployment continuing over long-time that occurs despite governments of the majority of countries undertaking continual efforts aiming at liquidating or at least limiting it. The main goal of the paper is to present the current problems of the labour market in Poland and other European Union countries that developed under the influence of the global economic crisis. An attempt at presenting the current situation and selected characteristics of the labour market in Poland developed under the influence of the conditions existing a…
Europa social: cuestiones para un futuro debate
2021
El presente trabajo tiene por objeto abordar determinadas cuestiones que, a juicio de la autora, deberían ser tratadas en un futuro debate sobre la Europa social. Para ello, se presentará, como punto de partida, la situación actual del denominado Modelo social europeo a partir de un recorrido por la configuración de las diferentes técnicas de creación del derecho social europeo: armonización de las legislaciones, diálogo social, método abierto de coordinación y ¿constitucionalización¿ de los derechos sociales. Una segunda parte del trabajo se dedicará a plantear ciertos temas concretos que deberían ser objeto de tratamiento en el futuro, entre ellos, los siguientes: la reformulación del art…
sj-docx-2-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 - Supplemental material for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social car…
2022
Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social care services: A cross-sectional population-based survey by T Heponiemi, A-M Kaihlanen, A Kouvonen, L Leemann, S Taipale and K Gluschkoff in Digital Health
sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 - Supplemental material for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social car…
2022
Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social care services: A cross-sectional population-based survey by T Heponiemi, A-M Kaihlanen, A Kouvonen, L Leemann, S Taipale and K Gluschkoff in Digital Health
sj-docx-2-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 - Supplemental material for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social car…
2022
Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-dhj-10.1177_20552076221074485 for The role of age and digital competence on the use of online health and social care services: A cross-sectional population-based survey by T Heponiemi, A-M Kaihlanen, A Kouvonen, L Leemann, S Taipale and K Gluschkoff in Digital Health