The Finnish dance of death: impressions from Helsinki
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/eurpub/ckm114
ISSN1464-360X
Autores Tópico(s)Health disparities and outcomes
ResumoThe annual meetings of the European Public Health Association provide good opportunities for experiencing different European cultures, and in October 2007 we all went to Helsinki to see what makes Finland special. Its very high density of public health researchers perhaps? The very slow, very cautious manner of speaking of many of its inhabitants, including researchers? Or the Finnish successes in systematically lowering cardiovascular disease mortality? This is all true and all very special, but Finns are also special in another field, the field of Dances of Death. First of all, they have the most northerly of all painted Dances of Death—a late-medieval form of art that was popular during the 15th and 16th centuries throughout continental Europe, but only rarely reached the northern borders of European civilization. The one and only Finnish Dance of Death is … Correspondence: Johan P Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands, e-mail: j.mackenbach{at}erasmusmc.nl
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