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- Macassa, Gloria, et al.
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Differentials in overall and cause-specific mortality among infants born in and out of wedlock, Stockholm 1878-1925
- 2006
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Ingår i: The History of the Family. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1081-602X .- 1873-5398. ; 11:1, s. 19-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates differentials in the decline of cause-specific infant mortality by marital status of the mother in Stockholm (1878-1925) and factors contributing to the explanation of these differentials using computerized records of individual entries from the Roteman Archives. Included in the analysis were 120,094 children less than 1 year of age who lived in Södermalm during this period. Cause-specific mortality rates were calculated for three time periods. Cox's regression analysis was used to study the relationship between overall and cause-specific risk of infant death and of being born in and out of wedlock in relation to a set of variables. Infant mortality rates and mortality risks were higher among children born out of rather than in wedlock. The most pronounced differentials in cause-specific mortality rates between these groups of children were seen in cases of diarrhea. The socioeconomic status of the household head and number of children in the household were statistically significant with infant mortality, but explain only part of the excess mortality risk of children born out of wedlock. In Stockholm at the turn of the 19th century being born out of wedlock was strongly associated with poor health outcomes, particularly in diarrheal diseases, pneumonia/ bronchitis, and immaturity/congenital causes.
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- Macassa, Gloria, et al.
(författare)
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Differentials in overall and cause-specific mortality between infants born in and out of wedlock, Stockholm 1878-1925
- 2006
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Ingår i: The History of the Family. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1081-602X .- 1873-5398. ; 11:1, s. 19-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates differentials in the decline of cause-specific infant mortality by marital status of the mother in Stockholm (1878–1925) and factors contributing to the explanation of these differentials using computerized records of individual entries from the Roteman Archives. Included in the analysis were 120,094 children less than 1 year of age who lived in Södermalm during this period. Cause-specific mortality rates were calculated for three time periods. Cox's regression analysis was used to study the relationship between overall and cause-specific risk of infant death and of being born in and out of wedlock in relation to a set of variables. Infant mortality rates and mortality risks were higher among children born out of rather than in wedlock. The most pronounced differentials in cause-specific mortality rates between these groups of children were seen in cases of diarrhea. The socioeconomic status of the household head and number of children in the household were statistically significant with infant mortality, but explain only part of the excess mortality risk of children born out of wedlock. In Stockholm at the turn of the 19th century being born out of wedlock was strongly associated with poor health outcomes, particularly in diarrheal diseases, pneumonia/bronchitis, and immaturity/congenital causes.
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- Vikström, Lotta, 1971-
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Vulnerability among paupers : determinants of individuals receiving poor relief in nineteenth-century northern Sweden
- 2006
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Ingår i: The History of the Family. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 1081-602X .- 1873-5398. ; 11:4, s. 223-239
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study combines computerized parish registers with parish meeting records that account for individuals who received poor relief in the nineteenth-century Sundsvall region, Sweden. The combination of sources especially helps to explore the recipients who are overlooked in the literature or difficult to trace in historical data. Their demographic characteristics in relation to relief allocation and experiences prior to it are analyzed and show that they did not only share the occurrence of entitlement. Vast but insufficient family networks failed to give the recipients support to manage their distressed situation. Deaths and births of relatives jeopardized their capability to guarantee subsistence for them or their family, and so did also their gender and phase in the lifecycle. The multi-dimensional concept of vulnerability is employed to comprehend the dynamic determinants of poverty represented by individuals granted poor relief. It is argued that this concept has to be further developed but nevertheless helps to identify and stratify some of the vulnerabilities that characterized paupers in the past.
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