Why do Swedish-speaking Finns have longer active life? An area for social capital research
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Why do Swedish-speaking Finns have longer active life? An area for social capital research.
We performed ecological and individual register studies to compare disability-free life expectancies and disability pensions among Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking Finns residing on the western coast of Finland. The study was conducted to establish our assumption that the Swedish-speaking ethnic minority has a longer active life than the Finnish-speaking majority and to show that this disp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Promotion International
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2245
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/16.1.55