Abstract
The aim of the present study is to determine whether there is in Finland a relationship between socioeconomic conditions in childhood and mortality in adulthood. The author additionally questions whether deaths due to coronary heart disease cardiovascular diseases and causes other than cardiovascular diseases show the same relationship that total mortality does to socioeconomic conditions in childhood. Mortality differences are also analyzed by height and by region. Data are from the East-West study which included 823 men in East Finland and 888 men in West Finland. The men were initially examined in 1959. Men born between 1900 and 1919 were then medically examined again in 1964 1969 and 1974. Occupation and farm size of the father (or mother if father was deceased) are used as the measure of socioeconomic conditions in childhood. Data are also taken from parish registers the study of the Committee of Landless People and the agricultural censuses of 1910-1930. (EXCERPT)
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