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- Title
INTERNAL MIGRATION AND TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY IN SWEDEN.
- Authors
Hutchinson, E. P.
- Abstract
The investigation reported in this article formed a part of a program of study recently undertaken on a Social Science Research Council fellowship. The original problem was epidemiological in character, the purpose being to obtain evidence of the relation of childhood infection to adult tuberculosis. The present paper is limited to one aspect of this investigation. It is an attempt to control or evaluate the influence of environment in order to determine the relative tuberculosis mortality rates of urban and rural populations under equivalent conditions. Tuberculosis mortality rates were computed and compared for various sections of the Swedish population. This article presents a chart showing a comparison of these rates for the city of Stockholm, the rest of urban Sweden, and rural Sweden as a whole, tile rates being presented for several broad age groups and also combined by standardization against the age distribution of the total Swedish population in 1920. As shown by the standardized rates, the tuberculosis mortality of the males tended to be somewhat higher in the urban than in the rural districts, but for the females very little difference between the mortality rates in the two sections of the material was to be observed. This latter fact is perhaps associated with the phenomenon of relatively higher tuberculosis mortality rates for females in the rural sections of countries in which women perform a considerable amount of physical labor.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SOCIAL sciences societies; TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; LUNG diseases; SOCIAL sciences; CHILDREN
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1936, Vol 1, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2084487