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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(6):581-582; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl101
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Shipwrecks and sudden deaths

Jørn Olsen

Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA

Correspondence: Professor and Chair Jørn Olsen, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA, tel: +310 825 8579; fax: +310 206 6939, e-mail: jo@ucla.edu

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In countries where we have good historical population statistics life expectancy has increased with a remarkable 3 months per year, year after year during the past 160 years.1 The main causes of this development must be improvements in social conditions, broadly defined. Only wars and pandemics of deadly infectious diseases have left visible marks on the life expectancy curve. So what is the problem? All is fine; it's fine, it's . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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