Population data on Finland 1900-1988

The burden of diabetes mortality in Finland 1988-2007 - A brief report

BACKGROUND Increasing incidence of diabetes has been reported in many countries and the disease burden related to diabetes to be distributed unevenly across the population. Patients with lower socioeconomic position have been reported to have higher diabetes prevalence, higher rates of diabetes related complications and excess mortality. This study examined trends in gender, age and socioeconom...

[Monthly distribution of births in the Japanese population before 1900].

possible a comparison with the data in the vital statistics which have been published annually since 1899 by the Japanese Government. Major sources of these data were: 1) 34,115 adult survivors registered in a) registration books of residents in ward offices in Tokyo and Osaka, b) lists of inmates at nursing homes for the aged in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyushu, and c) lists of members of local societi...

Traumatic brain injury, psychiatric disorders and suicide: a population-based study of suicide victims during the years 1988-2004 in Northern Finland.

BACKGROUND Depression and substance abuse are common among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, previous studies have not examined the temporal association between psychiatric disorders, TBI and suicide. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of TBI injury among suicide victims; to determine the association of suicide, psychiatric disorders and TBI severity; and to examine the effe...

1900——The Spectatorium: On Biology’s Audiovisual Archive

The British Impact on India, 1700–1900

The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors. It can be argued that they came from a culture that was inferior, and a political entity that was weaker, than that...