COVID – 19 effect on Health & Social organisations during coronavirus pandemic
Louhela, Eeva (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020121628636
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020121628636
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The objective of this thesis was to understand how the third sector in Finland and in the United Kingdom (UK) are dealing with the Pandemic situation inside of their social and health organisations. The purpose of the study was to compare non-governmental organisations in two different countries and understand how they are coping with the coronavirus crisis, COVID-19 pandemic. The thesis was done in collaboration with the SOSTE, the Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health. SOSTE requested a comparison of the third sector’s role during the coronavirus situation by exploring how the pandemic has affected social and health organisations in terms of activity, finances and continuity.
The study was conducted as a qualitative comparative research. The thesis compared 79 organisations from the UK and Finland. The participating organisations were chosen by answering the electronic questionnaire. Triangulation was used for data collection. Data collection included responses from the interview, document analysis, annual and financial reports from organisations and previous studies. Document analysis can be used to reflect a periodic change and gives deeper understanding of the topic; therefore, document analysis was used in this thesis. Annual reports were used to compare differences from before and after the coronavirus crisis situation, and financial reports were used to support the data from the annual reports to obtain a clearer picture of the organisations’ funding structure.
The results of the thesis indicated that the coronavirus situation has had an effect on the third sector organisations in terms of activity, finance and continuity. The study showed that organisations in both countries had to take drastic measures to keep their services going by avoiding physical contact and keeping social distancing in place. Most of the organisations in both countries were still able to thrive through the unexpected circumstances and keep functioning through the corona crisis.
The study was conducted as a qualitative comparative research. The thesis compared 79 organisations from the UK and Finland. The participating organisations were chosen by answering the electronic questionnaire. Triangulation was used for data collection. Data collection included responses from the interview, document analysis, annual and financial reports from organisations and previous studies. Document analysis can be used to reflect a periodic change and gives deeper understanding of the topic; therefore, document analysis was used in this thesis. Annual reports were used to compare differences from before and after the coronavirus crisis situation, and financial reports were used to support the data from the annual reports to obtain a clearer picture of the organisations’ funding structure.
The results of the thesis indicated that the coronavirus situation has had an effect on the third sector organisations in terms of activity, finance and continuity. The study showed that organisations in both countries had to take drastic measures to keep their services going by avoiding physical contact and keeping social distancing in place. Most of the organisations in both countries were still able to thrive through the unexpected circumstances and keep functioning through the corona crisis.