An Epidemiologic Study of Mortality among Bereaved Parents
- 25 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 319 (8) , 457-461
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198808253190801
Abstract
To study the health consequences of parental bereavement, we compared the mortality in two groups of bereaved Israeli parents with that in the general population. One cohort comprised the parents of all 2518 soldiers 18 to 40 years of age who were killed during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The second consisted of the parents of 1128 men 18 to 30 years of age who died in accidents between 1971 and 1975. Both groups were followed through 1983. The comparison population was the entire population of Jewish Israelis for which sex-, age-, and calendar year–specific mortality rates were available.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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