Saarela Jan, Finnäs Fjalar
Abo Akademi University, PO Box 311, FIN-65101 Vasa, Finland.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2005 Nov;59(3):313-20. doi: 10.1080/00324720500249372.
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are related to the mortality differential. Persons who are single, disability pensioners, and those having experienced unemployment are found to have substantially higher death rates than those with a partner and employed persons. Swedish speakers have a more favourable distribution on both variables, which thus notably helps to reduce the Finnish-Swedish mortality gradient. A conclusion from this study is that future analyses on the topic should focus on mechanisms that bring a greater proportion of Finnish speakers into the groups with poor health or supposed unhealthy behaviour.
从芬兰统计局编制的纵向登记册中选取了40至67岁的人群样本，用于分析芬兰讲瑞典语者和讲芬兰语者之间的死亡率差异。已知讲芬兰语者的死亡率高于讲瑞典语者。目的是探讨被视为健康相关特征变化衡量指标代理变量的劳动力市场经历和伴侣状况，是否与死亡率差异有关。结果发现，单身人士、残疾养老金领取者以及有过失业经历的人，其死亡率显著高于有伴侣的人和就业人员。讲瑞典语者在这两个变量上的分布更为有利，因此显著有助于缩小芬兰语者和瑞典语者之间的死亡率差距。这项研究得出的一个结论是，未来关于该主题的分析应聚焦于能让更大比例讲芬兰语者进入健康状况不佳或有不健康行为群体的机制。
