A socially neutral disease? Individual social class, household wealth and mortality from Spanish influenza in two socially contrasting parishes in Kristiania 1918–19

2005/08/09 by Svenn‐Erik Mamelund, Svenn-Erik Mamelund · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) #Demography #Disease #Economics #Geography #Health disparities and outcomes #Infectious disease (medical specialty) #Influenza Virus Research Studies #Influenza pandemic #Marital status #Medicine #Mortality rate #Norwegian #Population #Residence #Social class #Socioeconomic status #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.051

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• The 1918 Influenza Epidemic's Effects on Sex Differentials in Mortality in the United States
• The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Review of the Literature
• Phantom of the area: poverty-area residence and mortality in the United States.
• A hypothesis: the conjunction of soldiers, gas, pigs, ducks, geese and horses in Northern France during the Great War provided the conditions for the emergence of the “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918–1919

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