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Extreme population‐level events: Do they have an impact on cancer?
Author(s) -
Thompson Beti,
Gehlert Sarah,
Paskett Electra D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.30778
Subject(s) - medicine , population , phenomenon , cancer , event (particle physics) , the holocaust , environmental health , demography , epistemology , philosophy , physics , theology , quantum mechanics , sociology
The report by Sadetzki and colleagues in this issue showcases the impact of a horrendous event—the Holocaust—on subsequent health decades after the occurrence. Two additional calamities—country‐wide famines and population‐level discrimination—are provided as examples of this phenomenon to add evidence to the causal pathway identified by Sadetzki et al. See also pages 3335‐45.