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- Vikström, Lotta, 1971-, et al.
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Marriage Patterns in Swedish Cities 1840-1990
- 2004
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Ingår i: Living in the City (14th-20th Centuries). - Rome : La Sapienza, University of Rome. - 8887242356 ; , s. 203-236
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ericsson, Tom, 1948-, et al.
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Women's lives and lines of businesses : developmental perspectives of female entrepreneurs in Sundsvall, Sweden 1860-1892
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For a long time in history, women were expected to engage in domestic and reproductive work. In nineteenth-century Western world, women’s labor market widened as economic developments and bureaucratization enabled them to enter one profession after another. All these changes had an impact on women’s occupational opportunities and family responsibilities, but how is little debated because few sources comprise information on both women’s demographic features and their occupational characteristics or careers. For the years 1860–90, this paper has access to such materials. Business taxation registers, business calendars and local newspapers show women manifesting entrepreneurial aspirations as they offered their female skills, services and products in Sundsvall, a coastal town that due to the establishment of the sawmill industry witnessed large-scale economic, social and demographic changes. To achieve information on the family and social background of these female entrepreneurs, they are also found in the digitized parish registers stored at the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, Sweden. This combined data set helps to identify women’s line and duration of businesses and how their economic activities developed, and whether these activities were related to the women’s family life and social origin.
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- Häggström Lundevaller, Erling, Filosofie doktor, PhD, 1968-, et al.
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Long-term Health Outcomes from Inbreeding : Longevity, Fertility and Impairment
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the paper is to investigate if inbreeding had any health effects on individuals born 1890–1905 in Skellefteå, Sweden, with a follow-up period until 1950. The effects on longevity, fertility and impairments as outcome variables is of particular interest to clarify, as they provide a comprehensive picture of howinbreeding affects human demographic behaviour and health during this period. The effect on longevity was not strong but caused higher mortality for men above one year of age. The risk of stillbirths showed a substantial association with inbreeding, with a higher risk for highly inbred. The probability of having children was lower for persons representing high levels of inbreeding. However, the number of children given that at leastone child is born is not affected. No significant effect of the parents being related is noted on fertility. With respect to an individual’s own inbreeding we find that the higher the level of inbreeding, the higher the risk of impairments.
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- Junkka, Johan, 1981-, et al.
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Healthy migrant perspectives on disability and mobility in a nineteenth-century population
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The strong association between weak health and immobility suggests why there is insufficient knowledge on how disability affects human migration, historically and today. Swedish parish registers digitized by the Demographic Data Base (DDB), Umeå University, enable this study to investigate a 19th-century population of more than 35,000 including a group long hidden in research and society because of disability. First, rates and regressions demonstrate that disability impeded the migration of both men and women albeit with variations by disability type and over time. During industrialisation the overall migration risk was increasing, but not in case of disability. Second, spatial analysis shows that disability limited the distance migrants crossed, especially in the pre-industrial period and among women. During industrial time, migrants’ distance and destinations became less determined by disability. We address healthy migrant perspectives and lock-in mechanisms to discuss the disability differences in migration.
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- Liselotte, Eriksson, 1978-, et al.
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Supply or demand? : Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–1959
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Historical studies on the institutionalization of the mentally ill have primarily relied on data on institutionalized patients rather than the population at risk. Consequently, the underlying factors of institutionalization are unclear. Using Swedish longitudinal microdata from 1900–1959 reporting mental disorders, we examine whether supply-side factors such as distance to institutions and number of asylum beds influenced the risk of institutionalization, in addition to demand-side factors such as access to family. Institutionalization risks were associated with the supply of beds and proximity to an asylum, but also dependent on families’ unmet demand for care of relatives. As the supply of mental care met this family-driven demand in the 1930s, the relative risk of institutionalization increased among those lacking family networks.
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- Marklund, Emil, 1985-
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Teachers’ lives in transition : gendered experiences of work and family among primary school teachers in northern Sweden, c. 1860–1940
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this thesis, primary school teachers in a coastal area of northern Sweden c. 1860–1940 are studied with the overarching purpose to investigate the link between professional work and private life. Four sub-studies provide results on who the teachers were with regard to gender, professional status (teacher qualification) and socio-economic background, and on their family formation during the study period. Dis(similarities) over time and between the genders are analysed and discussed within a life-course framework, especially concerning women’s possibility to become teachers and combine their employment with family formation. The findings are obtained through quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of multiple sources like digitised parish records, censuses, teacher registers and a diary. The latter provides unique insights into the everyday life of a young woman and her interaction with the local community through her teacher position and social networks. The results show both continuity and change. The recruitment pattern of primary school teachers in terms of social origin remained stable throughout the study period. A farming origin was most typical while children of higher professionals were most likely to become teachers, but this group alone could not cover the need for new teachers. National reforms of the teacher training and its increasing accessibility on a regional level had a big impact on the number, qualification, and gender composition of primary school teachers in the study area. Results on the dynamic link between work and family formation show that female teachers were among the first middle-class women to increase their share in experiencing motherhood. In the 20th century, an increasing proportion of women who entered the teaching profession returned to it after having children. Overall, the thesis results show that women teachers in contrast to their male counterparts experienced fundamental transitions in their professional as well as family life. This indicates a shift in the perception of a respectable woman teacher. In the 19th century, she could be either a teacher or a mother but rarely both at the same time. Along with changes in societal structures and gendered norms during the 20th century, teaching mothers became far more common suggesting that they enjoyed respectability. The variety of findings of this thesis and its mix of methods allow it to contribute to several fields within history, such as social history, historical demography, gender history and history of education.
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- Namatovu, Fredinah, PhD, 1980-, et al.
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Våld i nära relationer bland vuxna med funktionsnedsättning
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna Genväg till forskning syftar till att ge en översikt av det aktuella kunskapsläget om våld i nära relationer bland vuxna med funktionsnedsättning. Det utgör ett problemområde som har undersökts jämförelse lite hittills. Översikten utgår från Världshälsoorganisationens (WHO) övergripande definition av funktionsnedsättning som avser långvarigt nedsatt förmåga hos individer att fungera fysiskt eller psykiskt i relation till sin omgivning och förhindrar dem från att fullt delta i samhället. Översikten ger en bild av den senaste forskningen beträffande: förekomst och följder av våld i nära relationer bland vuxna män och kvinnor med funktionsnedsättning; riskfaktorer för denna typ av våld; vad som kännetecknar det; samt tillgång till stöd och serviceinsatser. Även om båda könen berörs ligger fokus på hur övergrepp från närstående drabbar kvinnor med funktionsnedsättning generellt sett, där jämförelser mellan olika funktionsnedsättningar ibland förekommer. Vår översikt av forskningsläget blottlägger två kunskapsluckor, varav den första gäller okunskap om de erfarenheter av våld i nära relationer som personer med funktionsnedsättning har. För det andra är forskning om tillgång till stödinsatser bristfällig, inte minst vilka former av stödinsatser som bidrar till skydd och stöd. För att kunna förebygga våld som personer med funktionsnedsättning utsätts för och för att förbättra samhällets stödsystem behöver framtida forskning närmare undersöka dels hur de upplever våld från närstående, dels hur tillgången till stöd fungerar i praktiken. I slutet av rapporten presenteras några resultat från våra projekt som belyser just dessa aspekter avseende kvinnor som utsatts för dessa övergrepp i Sverige. Resultaten bidrar till att täppa till de två forskningsluckor som översikten påvisar.
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- Nordlund, Madelene, 1969-, et al.
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Equal Abilities : The Swedish Parasport Federation and the Inclusion Process
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- At present, there is an ongoing organizational change in the Swedish Sport Confederation. Through a comprehensive inclusion process persons with disability (PWD) are leaving the Parasport Federation for mainstream sport within the Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC). The purpose of this study was to advance the knowledge about how inclusion, after the ongoing change, is received and perceived by Parasport stakeholders at different levels in a sport organization that aimed to assess the feasibility of an organizational change towards inclusive environments in the SSC. This has been done by reporting the results from a questionnaire that stakeholders within the SSC responded to. In total, the respondents amounted to 130 individuals. The results point to mainly positive expectations concerning the inclusion process, which is a part of strategy plan of the Swedish Parasport Federation. Both athletes and stakeholders seem to share a mainly optimistic view of what the change can lead to. The study is part of an extensive investigation of the organizational change of the Swedish Sports Confederation towards inclusion of PWD.
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- Vikström, Lotta, 1971-, et al.
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A longitudinal study of how disability affects mortality in Swedish Populations from the 1800s, 1900s and 2000s
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Studies from across the world show that disability limits people’s health and social wellbeing in present-day populations. This disadvantage can lead to premature death, but there is dearth knowledge about the relationship between disability and mortality and changes over time. OBJECTIVES: Unique access to longitudinal micro data on comprehensive Swedish populations enabled us to examine how disability affects premature death in men and women from the 1800s until 2010. METHODS: Cox proportional regressions were used to estimate mortality hazards by disability status, gender and socio-economic indicators in three study populations from the 1800s, 1900s and 2000s. We followed all adults having disability from age 25 to compare their premature death risks (< age 43) relative to non-disabled groups.RESULTS: Irrespective of gender and century studied, the adjusted hazard ratios show that adults with disabilities had a significantly higher premature death risk relative to adults without disabilities, and it increased over time. In the 1800s, disability about doubled this risk (HR: 2.31, CI: 1.65–3.22) and it tripled from 1900–1959 (HR 3.01, CI 2.60– 3.48). At the turn of the 21th century, the mortality risk was almost ten-folded (HR 9.90, CI 8.03–10.5). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides the first comprehensive estimates on how disability increased mortality in Swedish populations from the 1800s until the 2000s. Across three centuries, disability was associated with a profoundly higher relative death risk in adults aged 25–42. This risk grew when the general survival in Sweden improved and it was the highest in the 1990–2010 period. Fundamental societal changes and extensive welfare provisions promoting equality in gender, health and social wellbeing of all citizens have not come to include younger generations with disabilities.
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