Infant mortality in a North-Swedish geographical isolate, 1950–70
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Vol. 12 (1) , 61-67
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000012694
Abstract
Infand mortality for the period 1950—70 has been analysied in a North-Swedish isolate, a population characterized by a high incidence of schizopherenic psychoses and other neuorpsychiatric disorders. Infand mortality is higher than in Sweden generally. As many as 45·9% of the deceased infands in the population sccumbed during the first week of their life, compard to 28·1% in the general Swedish population.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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