Disadvantaged population groups perceive their capabilities to promote individual health and wellbeing as weak
Young people not in education, employment or training, long-term unemployed, people with refugee backgrounds, and older people living alone and at risk of exclusion perceive their capabilities to promote their individual health and wellbeing as weak. A new study shows that these people also perceived their quality of life to be weaker than the Finnish population on average. The study, conducted by Research Director Tomi Mäki-Opas and Professor Marja Vaarama at the University of Eastern Finland and by Professor Richard Pieper at Tampere University, employed the capability framework, which