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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten, et al.
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Maternal and infant health development in southern Sweden, 1905-2015: Understanding the role of institutions and medical innovations
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using data from southern Sweden, this work analyses the development of maternal and infant health in five rural parishes and the town of Landskrona in Scania, Sweden, in the last 110 years. First, we address the overall development of maternal, perinatal and infant health using a range of indicators, such as maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and stillbirth rates. We also describe how institutional and medical changes reached the town of Landskrona and the surrounding rural areas. Second, we relate the development of maternal and infant health to the institutions and medical innovations available in the area, such as the expansion of hospital facilities, availability of antibiotics and the opening of maternity wards and neonatal intensive care units. We estimate the magnitude of the impact on a range of indicators of mother and infant health using time series analysis.
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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten, et al.
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Kept in the Family : Remarriage, Siblings, and Consanguinity in the Netherlands
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Interdisciplinary History. - : MIT Press - Journals. - 1530-9169 .- 0022-1953. ; 52:3, s. 313-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Widowhood involves many practical challenges next to the emotional impact of bereavement. Remarriage to a blood relative of a deceased spouse can often help a bereaved spouse to solve issues related to inheritance, child care, and comfort in a stressful period. A study of 15,540 widowers and 18,837 widows in the Dutch province of Zeeland—of whom about 8,000 men and 5,000 women eventually remarried—which uses genealogical data about their partners and the links family-reconstitution database, finds that the relatively high likelihood of farmers’ widows remarrying and doing so with kin may have been a strategy to prevent property from falling into the hands of other families. Notwithstanding that the attractiveness of a widow or widower could also be a factor in opportunities to remarry, older widows and widows with many young children, whose chances on the remarriage market tended to be poor, did not usually have such recourse to kin in remarriage.
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