Sökning: "Infant Mortality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 115 avhandlingar innehållade orden Infant Mortality.

1. 1. Omsorg om livet : Spädbarnsdödlighetens förändring i Ådalen under 1800-talet

   Författare :Stina Bohman; John Rogers; Rosemarie Fiebranz; Susanna Hedenborg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Breast-feeding; demography; folklore; history; infant care; infant feeding; infant mortality; midwiwes; mothers; peasant society; physicians; sawmill; Sweden; women’s work; Ådalen; 19th century; History; Historia; Historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : During the first half of the nineteenth century infant mortality rates in Ådalen, an agrarian region in northern Sweden, were among the highest in the country. During the second half of the century the region experienced a rapid population growth and a restructuring of the economy in conjunction with the expansion of the sawmill industry. LÄS MER

3. 2. Det hotade barnet : Tre generationers spädbarns- och barnadödlighet i 1800-talets Linköping

   Författare :Magdalena Bengtsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; infant mortality; child mortality; family history; 19th century; urban mortality; historical demography; Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the decline in infant and child mortality in Sweden during the 19th century. Around 1800 about a quarter of all children died before the age of one and 100 years later the proportion had been reduced to one tenth. LÄS MER

4. 3. Saving the child : regional, cultural and social aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland, 1770-1920

   Författare :ӓlöf Garðarsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; infant mortality; neonatal mortality; breastfeeding; infant feeding; midwives; physicians; hygiene; neonatal tetanus; measles; fertility; literacy; history of medicine; Iceland;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the infant mortality decline in Iceland during the 19th and early 20th Century. It shows that despite its low degree of urbanization, pre-transitional Iceland displayed higher infant mortality rates than most other European countries. LÄS MER

5. 4. Mot bättre hälsa : Dödlighet och hälsoarbete i Linköping 1860-1894

   Författare :Hans Nilsson; Jan Sundin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; historical demography; infant mortality; Linköping; morbidity; mortality; public health; social history; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : The decline in mortality was the most important cause of the great increase in population in Sweden in the 19th century. Especially important was the part played by the decline in infant mortality and mortality among small children. LÄS MER

7. 5. Public Health Programmes, Healthcare and Child Health

   Författare :Daniel Knutsson; Per Pettersson-Lidbom; Mårten Palme; Sonia Bhalotra; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public Health; Mortality; Infant Mortality; Piped Water; Well-visits; Crowding; Delivery Care; Sulfa; Information; Clean Water; Neonatal Mortality; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters.Modern Medicine, Public Policy and Infant Health: Evidence from a Preventive Health Programme in Sweden. This paper explores a universal preventive health programme targeting infants that coincided in time with the introduction and availability of an early antibiotic, sulfa. LÄS MER