Hospital admissions among returning migrant children and adolescents

The purpose of the present study was to explore the morbidity, especially p sychiatric and psychosomatic morbidity, of Finnish remigrant children and a dolescents who have lived part of their lives in Sweden. The study subjects consisted of 287 remigrants and 305 controls. Hospital admissions in these two groups were analyzed over an eleven year period after the study subjec ts' remigration to Finland. We found psychiatric morbidity, frequent hospit alizations and infectious diseases to be more common among the remigrants. These findings were consistent with the previous studies on Finnish remigra nts from Sweden.