In the early postwar period, improvements in life expectancy in many Western countries
made health authorities, health scientists and politicians believe that social differences in …

This paper deals with socioeconomic differences in adult mortality in southern Sweden 1815–
1968, a period of transformation from an agricultural to a modern industrial society and …

New micro‐level data have recently become available for three provinces of The
Netherlands for the period 1812–1912, which allow the study of the evolution of socio …

The present article analyses social inequality in mortality in the 19th century Sundsvall
region, an area that experienced rapid industrialization after 1850. The purpose of the study …

Most microlevel studies in the social sciences have focused on the impact of different
measured variables. While some studies have also dealt with unobserved variation, it has …

Abstract The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing
Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal …

BACKGROUND Social position is one of the major determinants of health. Less is known
about its effect in historical contexts. Previous studies have shown surprisingly small effects …

This article analyses the long‐term development of social class differences in infant and
child mortality in an area of southern Sweden, spanning from the early stages of the mortality …

Historical relationships between socio‐economic status and mortality remain poorly
understood. This is particularly the case in England, due to a lack of status indicators in …

This study uses a unique historical GIS dataset compiled from birth, death, and population
register records for infants born in the city of Amsterdam in 1851 linked to micro‐level spatial …