Patterns in mortality among people with severe mental disorders across birth cohorts: a register-based study of Denmark and Finland in 1982-2006

: Gissler M, Laursen TM, Osby U, Nordentoft M, Wahlbeck K

Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD

: 2013

: BMC Public Health

: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

: ARTN 834

: 13

: 11

: 1471-2458

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-834

Conclusions: The mortality gap between people with severe mental disorders and the general population decreased, but there was no improvement for young Finnish men with mental disorders. The Finnish recession in the early 1990s may have adversely affected mortality of adolescent and young adult men with mental disorders. Among women born 1933-1957, the lack of improvement may reflect adverse effects of the era of extensive hospitalisation of people with mental disorders in both countries.