Unaccompanied Evacuation and Adult Mortality: Evaluating the Finnish Policy of Evacuating Children to Foster Care During World War II.
Objectives. I examined associations between evacuation of Finnish children to temporary foster care in Sweden during World War II and all-cause mortality between ages 38 and 78 years. Methods. I used a Cox proportional hazards model to estimate mortality risk according to whether the individual was...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 104; no. 9; pp. 1759 - 1766 |
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American Public Health Association
Sep2014
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