1. Sirpa Pursiainen, M.Soc.sc
Workshop 1:
“Increasing sustainable
development by ethical social
and healthcare services.”

2. Private sector´s
services
Laws for
municipalities
Municipalities
and regional co-
operation
Specialized medical care
regions
Social and healthcare services in Finland
Municipal
taxation
Services organized by
municipalities and regional co-
opereations
Third sector´s services Services provided
by churches
Voluntary work
Families
Municipalities
buying
Private citizens
buying
State
Laws
Taxation
Supervisory
Sevices run by state

3. Laws and norms
Defining responsibilities
Financing
Plan for acts
Descriptions
IMPROVING WELL-BEING AND
SOCIAL AND HEALTCARE
Experiences
Feedback
Measures
New
approaches
Goals
Individuals
well-being
Evaluation
Pursiainen Sirpa, 2013

4. Sustainable social and healtcare services
Resources
Organizational
structures
Political leadership
SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

5. Sirpa Pursiainen, M.Soc.sc
“An important measure of welfare of the
society is well-being of the most
vulnerable individual in society.
Responsibility for the welfare of himself
belongs for him, but also in addition to
the whole society.
Belonging to the community supports
the urge for responsibility.”

6. Sirpa Pursiainen, M.Soc.sc
“An important measure of welfare of the
society is well-being of the most
vulnerable individual in society.”

7.  HOW WE DEFINE DIGNITY?
 WHY WE DEFINE IT AS WE DEFINE IT?
“An important measure of welfare of the society is well-
being of the most vulnerable individual in society.”

8. WHO?
- Who are the individuals we think that are
part of the society?
- Who is the most vulnerable individual?
- What kind of groups we have that are
very vulnerable?
WHY?
- Why this indivicual is more vulnerable
than others?
- Why this group stays vulnerable?
“An important measure of welfare of the society is well-
being of the most vulnerable individual in society.”

9. WHAT?
• What is well being?
• What well being of this vulnerable
individual is now?
 What well being of this group of vulnerable
people should be and could be?
“An important measure of welfare of the society is well-
being of the most vulnerable individual in society.”

10. WHAT?
• What do we do now in society to improve
well geing of this group?
• What could be done?
 What does it cost?
• What happens if we do nothing?
 What does it cost?
 WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
 How it affects for social and healtcare
services?
“An important measure of welfare of the society is well-
being of the most vulnerable individual in society.”

11. HOW?
• How we measure well being of different
groups now?
• How we could measure the changes of
well being of this vulnerable
indivual/group of them?
 How we measure and compare that how
different politics affect for wellbeing of
individuals?
“An important measure of welfare of the society is well-
being of the most vulnerable individual in society.”

12. Sirpa Pursiainen, M.Soc.sc
“ Responsibility for the welfare of
himself belongs for him, but also in
addition to the whole society.”

13. WHAT?
- What are the responsibilities of this person of his
wellbeing?
- What are the responsibilities of society?
- Family
- Relatives
- Neighbourhood
- Municipality
- State
WHAT IF?
Family/relatives/neighbourhood/municipality/state doesn t
take care of the their duties?
“ Responsibility for the welfare of himself belongs for him,
but also in addition to the whole society.”

14. HOW?
• How do we ensure that individuals will take
responsibility of themselves?
• How do we support capabilities of
individuals to take care of themselves?
• How do we enable for families to take care
of wellbeing of members of it?
• How do we make it possible to
neighbourhood to take care of each
others?
• How do we ensure that municipality and
state will take care their duties?
“ Responsibility for the welfare of himself belongs for him,
but also in addition to the whole society.”

15. WHERE OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTS COME
FROM?
• Why do we think the way we think?
 What are our values and ethics?
 How our own history affects?
 How the history of our society affets?
• What are the sides of the story we don t
usually notice and consider?
= That is mainly why our politics and acts
are what they are!
“ Responsibility for the welfare of himself belongs for him,
but also in addition to the whole society.”

16. Who is part of the community?
• How we support the possibilities of being
part of the community (Family, working
life, neigbourhood, municipality,
society)?
• How the members of community can
support feeling of being part of the
community of individual s?
“Belonging to the community supports the urge for
responsibility.”

17. Who is part of the community?
• Who belongs to christian democrats?
• Why someone is member of christian
democrats?
• How the members of community can
support feeling of being part of the
community of individual s?
 What is the difference of acts and
thougts in politics about social and
healthcare services comparing to other
parties?
“Belonging to the community supports the urge for
responsibility.”

18. Who could do
tutoring?
With who we
develop?
Developing with compeers
Developing social and healtcare
services
Ensuring the use
of approaches
Distribution of
approaches
Cooperation
Needs

19. Developing with compeers
Planning
Whom I want to learn?
Why this party/direction?
Does the compeer has
enough resources?
WIN - WIN?
Timetable?
What I want to learn?
Systematic use of
learning?
What can I give?

20. Sirpa Pursiainen, M.Soc.sc
Development
Project Manager
Sirpa.pursiainen@gmail.com
Expertise areas:
Social science, social and healthcare services in Finland.
personalized study paths, on the job learning.
Working as project manager (projects financed by the
board of the education in Finland). Fiction writer.
Member of Advisory Council for Youth Affairs.
Negotiator in the Government negotiations 2011.
Current projects at work:
• Edu.fi pedagogical approaches ”Personalized paths"
• Nappiparisto – compeer power to develompent of
learning environments
• Nationwide coordination of the project extended on
the job learning
• Writing the nationwide guide about learning at
workplaces