Spanish influenza mortality of ethnic minorities in Norway 1918-1919
Spanish influenza mortality of ethnic minorities in Norway 1918-1919
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1022179025843
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Mamelund, SE
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作者：
Mamelund, SE
此前对西班牙流感死亡率的研究报告称，土著人口是主要的受害者。然而，这些研究中提出的解释并不令人信服，因为没有对可能的混杂因素进行控制。本文的多变量分析表明，剔除财富、贫困、拥挤和职业结构等混杂因素后，挪威萨米人比例较高的地区(LAPS)的西班牙流感死亡率较高。原因可能是萨米人缺乏对流感的遗传和获得性免疫力。然而，另一少数民族Kven(芬兰移民及其后裔)在西班牙流感死亡率方面与挪威多数族裔人口没有显著差异。这是由于挪威社会对克文人的经济和文化同化程度相对较高，而不是1910年代末的萨米人。
Previous studies into Spanish Influenza mortality have reported that indigenous populations were the prime victims. The explanations put forward in those studies were not convincing, however, as no controls had been made for possibly confounding factors. The multivariate analysis in this paper shows that areas of Norway with high shares of the Sami population (Laps) had high Spanish Influenza mortality, net of such confounding factors as wealth, poverty, crowding, and occupational structure. The cause is probably a lack of inherited and acquired immunity against influenza among the Sami. Another ethnic minority, Kven (Finnish immigrants and their descendants), however, did not differ significantly from the ethnic Norwegian majority population with respect to Spanish Influenza mortality. This is explained by a relatively high degree of economic and cultural assimilation of the Kven in the Norwegian society, as opposed to the Sami in the late 1910s.