TY  - GEN
AU  - Katsui,Hisayo
AU  - Laitinen,Matti T.
AU  - Katsui,Hisayo
AU  - Laitinen,Matti T.
TI  - Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model
T2  - Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
SN  - 9781032685519
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Personal and public health / health education
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Disability: social aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Disability Studies
KW  - Wellbeing
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Nordic Model
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of assumed development and normalcy, it takes Finland, which has been chosen repeatedly as the happiest country in the world as its case- study. Using disability as a critical lens helps to demystify Finland that has the positive reputation of a Welfare State. By identifying different kinds of discrimination against persons with disabilities as well as successful examples of disability inclusion, it shows that when looking Finland from the perspective of persons with disabilities, inequality and poverty have been collective experiences of too many of them. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, political science, health and well-being studies and Nordic studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102739/1/9781040002308.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160554
ER  -