Migrants’ health depends on factors both at their places of origin and destination. Finnish migrant men living in Sweden have total mortality rates falling between those of the Finnish and Swedish populations. Migrant women, however, have slightly higher total mortality than both populations. However, their alcohol- and smoking-related mortality le...
La santé des immigrés dépend de facteurs liés à la fois à leur lieu d’origine et de destination. Les immigrés finlandais de sexe masculin vivant en Suède ont des taux de mortalité compris entre ceux des populations finlandaise et suédoise. Les femmes immigrées, en revanche, affichent une mortalité légèrement supérieure à ces deux populations. Cepen...
The establishment of free mobility in Europe has lowered barriers to movement and given rise to diversity in migration and integration patterns. However, in part due to data constraints, it is difficult to study migration motives, integration and return migration together. Using linked Finnish and Swedish register data covering the period 1988–2005...
In this article the dynamics of annual variability of tree ring width and climate signal of uneven-age Scotch pine trees from northern Finland were compared. Although the dynamic of tree ring width is similar at trees, the climate response of old-tree chronology has more pronounced relationships with July temperature than young-tree chronology. / В...
Published in SSM - population health
Migrants often have better health than the native-born population ('healthy immigrant effect'), although the effect tends to attenuate over time since migration. However, following the weathering hypothesis, migrants may have worse health due to a combination of discrimination and poorer financial conditions faced by many of them. Yet, little is kn...
This paper aims to present the results of the Erasmus + RUR'UP project that developed educational tools for scientists, public managers, practitioners, and agricultural advisors living and working in peripheral rural areas. Based on the assessment of the educational needs and gaps for the sustainable development of the EU peripheral rural areas of ...
What is difficult in ethics teaching for general upper secondary students? Can they achieve as good results in metaethics as in normative ethics? These questions should not be addressed without consideration of the various traditions of ethics teaching. Finnish students complete their studies in general upper secondary school by taking the Matricul...
This paper aims to analyze the patterns of poverty and housing overcrowding among immigrant children in Finland. We seek to explore whether and to what degree foreign-born children are disadvantaged relative to native children in terms of income poverty and overcrowded housing. Another main objective is to study the patterns of immigrant child pove...
We study how ethnolinguistic identity relates to ethnolinguistic background in contemporary Finland. This is a society in which two ethnolinguistic groups have coexisted for centuries and mixed unions are increasingly common. Using multigenerational data from the population register, we determine the ethnolinguistic affiliation of children born in ...
