Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts: The Case of Finland |
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Authors: | Jan Saarela Fjalar Finn?s |
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Institution: | (1) ?bo Akademi University, P.O. Box 311, 65101 Vasa, Finland |
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Abstract: | The system of full mobilisation and the modest effects of the World War II events on the civil population make Finland a highly
useful case for exploring whether war veterans have elevated long-term mortality risks. Using data from the Human Mortality
Database and a register-based micro sample with main causes of death, we study men in the cohorts who participated in the
wars against the Soviet Union in 1939–1944. For these war cohorts, we find no indications of reduced survival after the early
1950s, as compared with male cohorts without combat experience. The absence of a long-term effect might be an artefact of
mortality selection. In the first few years after war-end, death rates remained relatively high because of infectious diseases
that killed off the weakest of the survivors. The results are in line with a series of other studies and illustrate that in
the potential presence of cohort inversion there are no visible long-term effects of war experience on later-life survival. |
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