International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:302-308
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Observations throwing light on the high mortality in the county of Finnmark.
Is the high mortality today a late effect of very poor living conditions in childhood and adolescence?*
Ever since the beginning of the registration of county mortality approximately a hundred years ago, the mortality of the county of Finnmark has been much higher than for the rest of Norway. Men in our largest towns have a high mortality rate. However, compared to the other counties of the country, Finnmark has unfavourable mortality and the difference is still striking and considerable.
The high infant mortality in Finnmark has been the subject of several investigations,1,2,4,5,9 but no studies are available concerning the reasons for the high general mortality in the county, even though several investigations of particular diseases such as pneumonia, lung cancer and rickets have been carried out. Cardiovascular diseases are known to be a common cause of death, but not much is known regarding the reasons for this high mortality. Therefore we do not know whether there are geographical variations within the county, whether some groups of
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