Social Class and Excess Mortality in Sweden During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.
Consensus is lacking in the literature about the role of socioeconomic factors on influenza-associated deaths during the 1918 pandemic. Although some scholars have found that social factors were important, others have not. In this study, we analyzed differences in excess mortality by social class in...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 187; no. 12; pp. 2568 - 2577 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2018
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