No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II

The Forced Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II: Memory, Identity, and History

Rapid increase in Japanese life expectancy after World War II.

Japanese life expectancy increased by about 13.7 years during the first decade after World War II, despite the country's post-war poverty. Although it is known that medical progress explains part of this increase, roles of non-medical factors have not been systematically studied. This study hypothesizes that non-medical factors, in addition to medical factors, are associated with the rapid incr...

Study on Social Development of Europe after World War II

After World War II, Europe, especially western Europe and northern Europe, gradually stepped onto a path of social development that was different from America. Quite a lot of socialistic new factors came into being in the production relations, class relations, income distribution and superstructure, etc, in these countries, so that the capitalism in Europe presented obvious staggered qualitativ...

Political Aspects of European Monetary Integration After World War II

I. After World War II, an all-encompassing effort was undertaken to eliminate for the future the risk of war between European countries which twice in this century had spread to the whole world. From the beginning, also economic cooperation arid monetary integration were politically motivated--by tying the European countries together in a common institutional framework and by rebuilding their e...

PTSD prevalence among Polish World War II survivors.

OBJECTIVES Over the past decade research has been published in several Western European countries on the prevalence of PTSD among World War II survivors, mostly civilians. Prevalence rates ranged from 1.9% to 10.8 %. The aim of the study was to measure the frequency of PTSD occurrence among Polish WWII survivors. METHODS Data from 96 persons: 59 women and 37 men, aged 70-96 were analyzed. All...