Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Author "Bask, Miia"

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Challenges facing ophands and vulnerable children in SOS homes. A case study of SOS Children's village, Kumasi-Ghana

Fordjourf, Benjamin Kofi Otieku Minka (Master thesis, 2019)

Parental deaths and illnesses are childhood traumatic events that are associated with several negative physical and psychosocial health problems. Out of the 140 million children classified as orphans, 15.1 million have ...
Cumulative (Dis)advantage and the Matthew effect in life-course analysis

Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael (PLoS ONE;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)

To foster a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind inequality in society, it is crucial to work with well-defined concepts associated with such mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to define cumulative (dis)advantage ...
Psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pension among former child welfare clients

Bask, Miia; Ristikari, Tiina; Hautakoski, Ari; Gissler, Mika (Longitudinal and life course studies;8(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

This study used the 1987 Finnish Birth Cohort, which included all children born in Finland in 1987 (N=59,476), to investigate psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pensions (DPs) among child welfare clients and ...