Maria Vaalavuo
maria.vaalavuo@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1951-5042 |
Areas of expertise
Social inequality; use of social and health care services; health inequalities over the life course; social sustainability; ageing society; sociogenomics; welfare state; EU social dimension; well-being; poverty and social disadvantage
Social inequality; use of social and health care services; health inequalities over the life course; social sustainability; ageing society; sociogenomics; welfare state; EU social dimension; well-being; poverty and social disadvantage
Research community or research topic
Consortium leader of SustAgeable, PI of academy project MEDIG, researcher in the INVEST flagship.
Consortium leader of SustAgeable, PI of academy project MEDIG, researcher in the INVEST flagship.
Teaching
Publications
- Are the Sick Left Behind at the Peripheries? Health Selection in Migration to Growing Urban Centres in Finland (2021)
- European Journal of Population
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Are the Sick Left Behind at the Peripheries? Health Selection in Migration to Growing Urban Centres in Finland (2021)
- European Journal of Population
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Health shocks and couples' labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory? (2021)
- Social Science and Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Health shocks and couples' labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory? (2021)
- Social Science and Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter? (2021)
- Journal of Youth Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter? (2021)
- Journal of Youth Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The unequal impact of ill health: Earnings, employment, and mental health among breast cancer survivors in Finland (2021)
- Labour Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The unequal impact of ill health: Earnings, employment, and mental health among breast cancer survivors in Finland (2021)
- Labour Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Use of public health and social care services among the elderly in Finland: An under-examined mechanism of redistribution (2020)
- Journal of European Social Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Use of public health and social care services among the elderly in Finland: An under-examined mechanism of redistribution (2020)
- Journal of European Social Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Income Mobility and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland (2019)
- European Sociological Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Income Mobility and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland (2019)
- European Sociological Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pieces in a big puzzle: On the relationship between health and employment (2018) Saaksvuori L, Vaalavuo M, Linnosmaa I
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Pieces in a big puzzle: On the relationship between health and employment (2018) Saaksvuori L, Vaalavuo M, Linnosmaa I
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - The development of healthcare use among a cohort of Finnish social assistance clients: testing the social selection hypothesis (2016)
- Sociology of Health and Illness
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The development of healthcare use among a cohort of Finnish social assistance clients: testing the social selection hypothesis (2016)
- Sociology of Health and Illness
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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