• Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe 

      Nero, Kristi; Orru, Kati; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Olson, Alexandra; Airola, Merja; Savadori, Lucia; Kazemekaityte, Austeja; Lovasz, Gabriella; Kajganovic, Jelena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-08)
      Homeless and materially disadvantaged people are considered particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. So far, there is no systematic knowledge about how the homeless and materially disadvantaged people perceive the ...
    • Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic 

      Orru, Kati; Nero, Kristi; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Schieffelers, Abriel; Olson, Alexandra; Airola, Merja; Kazemekaityte, Austeja; Lovasz, Gabriella; Scurci, Giuseppe; Ludvigsen, Johanna; de los Rios Pérez, Daniel A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-07)
      The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the resilience of care organisations (and those dependent on them), especially when services are stopped or restricted. This study focuses on the experiences of care organisations that ...
    • Self-imposed social isolation among clients of social care organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Orru, Kati; Nero, Kristi; Schieffelers, Abriel; Olson, Alexandra; Ludvigsen, Johanna; Airola, Merja; Savadori, Lucia; Krüger, Marco; Gabel, Friedrich; Hesjevoll, Ingeborg Storesund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-11)
      Although self-imposed social isolation is an important way of reducing the risk of COVID-19 infection, previous research indicates that this behaviour varies substantially between different groups and individuals. Socially ...
    • Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspective 

      Kuran, Christian Henrik Alexander; Morsut, Claudia; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar; Krüger, Marco; Segnestam, Lisa; Orru, Kati; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Airola, Merja; Keränen, Jaana; Gabel, Friedrich; Hansson, Sten; Torpan, Sten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-06)
      In general, the identification and protection of vulnerable groups in the case of hazards or when a crisis unfolds is an issue that any crisis and disaster risk management should address, since people have different levels ...