Engelsk titel: Transboundary social medicine: care of Finnish sick children in Sweden 1942-1949
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Författare:
Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin
;
Junila, Marianne
Email: marianne.junila@oulu.fi
Språk: Swe
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UI-nummer: 18020115
Sammanfattning
The following article concerns a large-scale scheme during WWII set up to
transport approximately 5000 sick Finnish children to Sweden for medical
care and treatment. The transports took place in parallel with the evacuation
and relocation of 70 000 Finnish war children placed mainly in Swedish
families but also in institutions. However, the transports of sick children
lasted until the late 1940s. They differed from the evacuation and relocation
of Finnish war children in the sense that state actors from both Finland and
Sweden were involved. The Swedish government put in a substantial financial
support for both transports and treatment as well as for the care facilities.
Moreover, prominent pediatricians in both countries played an important
role in both the initiation and the implementation of the large-schale scheme
drawing on social medicine reform work for child and maternal health care.