Encounters with unemployment in occupational health care: Nurses' constructions of clients without work

Social Science & Medicine
Katri RomppainenPekka Virtanen

Abstract

This study explores occupational health nurses' encounters with unemployed clients in Finland. It involved setting up and evaluating a new service, Career Health Care, that resembled occupational health care, except that clients were recruited from among job seekers who were participating in one of three active labour market policy measures: vocational training, subsidised employment in the public sector, or participatory training for entering the labour market. Our main interest focused on nurses' perceptions of the unemployed and their professional practices in the context of Career Health Care. The analysis revealed four overlapping discourses with regard to clients: the client as a casualty of unemployment, the client as unemployed but active, the client as a deviant in the labour market, and the client as a skilled user of the system. Each discourse had implications for professional practice. The risk of negative stereotyping and consequent exclusion from services is discussed here. In conclusion, we stress the complexity of providing health services that can match the increasing diversity of contemporary labour market trajectories.

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Jan 28, 2012·Sociology of Health & Illness·Katri RomppainenPekka Virtanen
Nov 25, 2014·BMC Public Health·Katri RomppainenPekka Virtanen
Sep 27, 2018·Health Promotion International·Alfons Hollederer

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