Disability, Mortality and Causes of Death in a 19th-Century Swedish Population

Our study aims to find how disability affected human health in historical time through an examination of individuals' mortality risks and death causes. Swedish parish registers digitized by the Demographic Data Base (DDB) enable us to account for a relatively high number of persons reported to...

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Main Authors: Lotta Vikström, Sören Edvinsson, Erling Häggström Lundevaller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Instititute of Social History 2021-03-01
Series:Historical Life Course Studies
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Online Access:https://openjournals.nl/index.php/hlcs/article/view/9585