Social exclusion in early adulthood, related factors and the timing of the social and health care services
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23990/sa.73002Keywords:
young people, social and health care system, well-being, NEETAbstract
n decision-making, understanding the big picture of social exclusion is still mostly lacking. This leads to dispersed and separate actions and solutions at various levels, which often complicate individuals’ situations. Also, there is a large discrepancy between the young people’s needs and the current services.
In this study, social exclusion is determined as lack of secondary level education at the age of 25 together with long-term unemployment at ages 25–28, which means deviation from the life course norms.
This study investigates the prevalence and sex differences of social exclusion with The Finnish Birth Cohort 1987 register data. This study also investigates the related factors in childhood and adolescence, and whether the usage and timing of the social and health care services differ between the groups of ‘the educated employed’ and ‘the socially excluded’.
3.7 percent of the young people born in Finland in 1987 could be described as socially excluded, mostly men. Education was more tightly twined with other problems than unemployment, and numerous own and family-related problems could be determined in childhood and adolescence. The related factors showed some sex specificities. Interestingly, the usage and the timing of the social and health care services differed significantly between ‘the educated employed’ and ‘the socially excluded’. This study confirms the intertwining of education and employment, to which other well-being problems also interact.
This study extends the knowledge on factors and sex specificities related to social exclusion, and provides further information on the role of the social and health care system in the process of social exclusion.
