Edvinsson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 16794 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edvinsson |
| APELLIDO | Edvinsson |
| FIRMA | EDVINSSON |
| AFILIACIONES | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7439-002X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Agents of Change. The Evolution of Cause of Death Reporting in Sweden (1749–1950)
Sweden has a long-standing tradition of recording causes of death, dating back to the establishment of Tabellverket, in 1749. At that time, parish ministers were responsible for documenting causes of death in parish registers and compiling related statistics, which were then used for national population data. This article explores the various agents involved in the development and maintenance of this reporting system. These include government off…
What was Killing Babies in Sundsvall? A Study of Infant Mortality Patterns Using Individual Level Cause of Death Data, 1860–1892
In this report, we analyse infant mortality in Sundsvall 1860–1892. The focus is on the pattern and development of causes of death with separate analyses of neonatal and post-neonatal mortality. Furthermore, we discuss the development of infant mortality in relation to possible determinants in the historical context in Sundsvall. The results show substantial differences between neonatal and post-neonatal mortality when it comes to causes of death…
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839
While there is strong evidence that maternal smallpox infection can cause foetal loss, it is not clear whether smallpox infections were a demographically important cause of stillbirths historically. In this paper, we use parish-level data from the Swedish Tabellverket data set for 1780-1839 to test the effect of smallpox on stillbirths quantitatively, analysing periods before and after the introduction of vaccination in 1802. We find that smallpo…
The Demographic Database — History of Technical and Methodological Achievements
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal population databases and disseminating data for research. The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use t…
Introduction
Over the last 60 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations spanning decades have been launched. The development of these databases is indicative of considerable investments that have greatly expanded the possibilities for new research within the fields of history, demography, sociology, as well as other disciplines. In this volume spanning seven articles, eight databases are included that have h…
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 have disabilities, and to compare them with a group of non-disabled cases. The findings concern a 19th-century population of 35,610 individuals in the Sund…
A Database for the Future. Major Contributions from 47 Years of Database Development and Research at the Demographic Data Base
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal population databases and disseminating data for research. The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use t…
Income inequality and old-age mortality in Sweden
Intergenerational Transfers of Infant Mortality in 19th-Century Northern Sweden
This contribution is part of an international comparative initiative with the aim to assess the analytical power of the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) in a study of possible intergenerational transmissions of death in infancy. An evaluation of the data in applied research will be useful for further development of the IDS structure and for its future use in comparative research. An additional methodological aim for this part of the study is to …
A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research
This paper presents the longitudinal database POPLINK, which has been developed at the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University, Sweden. Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic tran…
On the association between weather variability and total and cause-specific mortality before and during industrialization in Sweden
While there is ample evidence for health risks associated with heat and other extreme weather events today, little is known about the impact of weather patterns on population health in preindustrial societies
Gender and fertility within the free churches in the Sundsvall region, Sweden, 1860–1921
The role of secularization in the European fertility decline has been of interest to demographers, who often explore the relationship on a macro-level or by identifying religious affiliation by proxy. However, the relationship has not been thoroughly studied on an individual level utilizing indicators of personal religious conviction and affiliation. The aim of the present article is to examine reproductive practices by religious affiliation in o…
Association of Seasonal Climate Variability and Age-Specific Mortality in Northern Sweden before the Onset of Industrialization
In this pre-industrial rural region in northern Sweden, higher levels of rain during the autumn increased the annual number of deaths. Harvest quality might be one critical factor in the causal pathway, affecting nutritional status and susceptibility to infectious diseases. Autumn rain probably also contributed to the spread of air-borne diseases in crowded living conditions. Children beyond infancy appeared most vulnerable to climate impacts
Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses
Research benefits a great deal when different kinds of registers can be combined. Record linkage is an important tool for connecting sources to create longitudinal databases of individual data. In this article, researchers test and evaluate different methods of record linkage used when linking two censuses. By comparing the results of the census linkage with other continuous Swedish parish registers, they find that applying constructed name varia…
Do unequal societies cause death among the elderly? A study of the health effects of inequality in Swedish municipalities in 2006
BACKGROUND: A lively public and academic debate has highlighted the potential health risks of living in regions characterized by inequality. Research provides an ambiguous picture, however, with positive association between income equality and health mainly being found on higher levels of geographical division, such as nations, but rarely at local level. METHODS: We examined the association between income inequality (using the Gini coefficient) a…
The influence of seasonal climate variability on mortality in pre-industrial Sweden
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown an association between weather and climatic factors with mortality, cardiovascular and infectious diseases. We used historical data to investigate the impact of seasonal temperature and precipitation on total mortality in Uppsala, Sweden, during the first two stages of the demographic transition, 1749-1859. DESIGN: We retrieved mortality and population numbers of the Uppsala Domkyrka parish from digitised par…
Clustering of Deaths in Families
This introduction surveys the field of family clustering of deaths and discusses the contributions in this special issue. The main focus is on mortality in historical contexts. Clustering of deaths in families has been found both in historical and contemporary populations, and we argue that the 'family approach' to infant and child mortality yields important and interesting insights for our understanding of different mortality patterns and the mo…
The Effect of Rh-Negative Disease on Perinatal Mortality
The Rh-negative gene is a well-known cause of perinatal mortality. In this article, we analyze the possible role of Rh disease in perinatal mortality and stillbirths in a particular historical setting: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden between 1860 and 1900. The data used for the study cover 23,067 children born to 4,943 women. The exact impact is not possible to establish using historical data, but the typical pattern of the disease allow…
Old age, health and social inequality
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 of social class in working age populations. Not much is known about social differences
Wealth and health in 19th Century Sweden. A study of social differences in adult mortality in the Sundsvall region
Migration and mortality trajectories
The practice of birth control and historical fertility change
This introduction discusses the contributions in the special issue. The articles present results concerning the practice of birth control, mainly at the family level. They represent different analytical approaches where both interviews, letters, surveys and micro-level data have been used. The European fertility decline has made a fundamental change to the societies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Birth control spreads rapidly. Research in this f…
Infant mortality in the Nordic countries, 1780–1930
This article summarizes aspects of the decline in infant mortality in the five Nordic countries. During the nineteenth century, both the levels of infant mortality and its development differed among the Nordic countries. At an early date, Denmark, Norway and Sweden stood out as the countries with the lowest levels in Europe whereas levels of infant mortality in Iceland and Finland were comparatively high. Within the countries there were large reg…
Sex-specific, male-line transgenerational responses in humans
High-risk families
An analysis of infant mortality (based on 133,448 births) in two regions, Sundsvall and Skellefteå, in north-eastern Sweden during the nineteenth century shows that infant mortality was highly clustered with a relatively small number of families accounting for a large proportion of all infant deaths. Using logistic regression, two important factors were found to be associated with high-risk families: (i) a biological component evidenced by an ove…
Wealth and health in 19th Century Sweden. A study of social differences in adult mortality in the Sundsvall region
Infant mortality in the Nordic countries, 1780–1930
This article summarizes aspects of the decline in infant mortality in the five Nordic countries. During the nineteenth century, both the levels of infant mortality and its development differed among the Nordic countries. At an early date, Denmark, Norway and Sweden stood out as the countries with the lowest levels in Europe whereas levels of infant mortality in Iceland and Finland were comparatively high. Within the countries there were large reg…
Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses
Research benefits a great deal when different kinds of registers can be combined. Record linkage is an important tool for connecting sources to create longitudinal databases of individual data. In this article, researchers test and evaluate different methods of record linkage used when linking two censuses. By comparing the results of the census linkage with other continuous Swedish parish registers, they find that applying constructed name varia…
High-risk families
An analysis of infant mortality (based on 133,448 births) in two regions, Sundsvall and Skellefteå, in north-eastern Sweden during the nineteenth century shows that infant mortality was highly clustered with a relatively small number of families accounting for a large proportion of all infant deaths. Using logistic regression, two important factors were found to be associated with high-risk families: (i) a biological component evidenced by an ove…
Gender and fertility within the free churches in the Sundsvall region, Sweden, 1860–1921
The role of secularization in the European fertility decline has been of interest to demographers, who often explore the relationship on a macro-level or by identifying religious affiliation by proxy. However, the relationship has not been thoroughly studied on an individual level utilizing indicators of personal religious conviction and affiliation. The aim of the present article is to examine reproductive practices by religious affiliation in o…
Clustering of Deaths in Families
This introduction surveys the field of family clustering of deaths and discusses the contributions in this special issue. The main focus is on mortality in historical contexts. Clustering of deaths in families has been found both in historical and contemporary populations, and we argue that the 'family approach' to infant and child mortality yields important and interesting insights for our understanding of different mortality patterns and the mo…
Old age, health and social inequality
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 of social class in working age populations. Not much is known about social differences
Migration and mortality trajectories
On the association between weather variability and total and cause-specific mortality before and during industrialization in Sweden
While there is ample evidence for health risks associated with heat and other extreme weather events today, little is known about the impact of weather patterns on population health in preindustrial societies
Infant Mortality in Sweden; Creating Regions from Nineteenth-Century Parish Data
(2000). Infant Mortality in Sweden; Creating Regions from Nineteenth-Century Parish Data. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, Spatial Variations in Mortality, pp. 105-114
Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839
While there is strong evidence that maternal smallpox infection can cause foetal loss, it is not clear whether smallpox infections were a demographically important cause of stillbirths historically. In this paper, we use parish-level data from the Swedish Tabellverket data set for 1780-1839 to test the effect of smallpox on stillbirths quantitatively, analysing periods before and after the introduction of vaccination in 1802. We find that smallpo…
Change in food availability during pregnancy
Maternal access to food during pregnancy affects birth weight and other characteristics of offspring. It has been suggested that fluctuations in food availability during infancy, ranging from plentiful to starvation, may influence cerebro-cardiovascular risk factors for the offspring during adult life. This study was designed to test the correlation between food availability changes during life before birth and adult sudden death from disease. Th…
Swedish towns during industrialization
This article discusses différent aspects of migration and health in Swedish 19th century urban environments. The décliné in urban mortality set in during the last decades of the century, at the same time as Sweden rapidly became more urbani-zed. The relation between population increase and mortality was however not that clear. The article analyses mortality among migrants in comparison with the more permanently resident population in two Swedish …
Infant Mortality in Sweden; Creating Regions from Nineteenth-Century Parish Data
(2000). Infant Mortality in Sweden; Creating Regions from Nineteenth-Century Parish Data. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, Spatial Variations in Mortality, pp. 105-114
High-risk families
An analysis of infant mortality (based on 133,448 births) in two regions, Sundsvall and Skellefteå, in north-eastern Sweden during the nineteenth century shows that infant mortality was highly clustered with a relatively small number of families accounting for a large proportion of all infant deaths. Using logistic regression, two important factors were found to be associated with high-risk families: (i) a biological component evidenced by an ove…
Sex-specific, male-line transgenerational responses in humans
Infant mortality in the Nordic countries, 1780–1930
This article summarizes aspects of the decline in infant mortality in the five Nordic countries. During the nineteenth century, both the levels of infant mortality and its development differed among the Nordic countries. At an early date, Denmark, Norway and Sweden stood out as the countries with the lowest levels in Europe whereas levels of infant mortality in Iceland and Finland were comparatively high. Within the countries there were large reg…
The practice of birth control and historical fertility change
This introduction discusses the contributions in the special issue. The articles present results concerning the practice of birth control, mainly at the family level. They represent different analytical approaches where both interviews, letters, surveys and micro-level data have been used. The European fertility decline has made a fundamental change to the societies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Birth control spreads rapidly. Research in this f…
Wealth and health in 19th Century Sweden. A study of social differences in adult mortality in the Sundsvall region
Migration and mortality trajectories
Clustering of Deaths in Families
This introduction surveys the field of family clustering of deaths and discusses the contributions in this special issue. The main focus is on mortality in historical contexts. Clustering of deaths in families has been found both in historical and contemporary populations, and we argue that the 'family approach' to infant and child mortality yields important and interesting insights for our understanding of different mortality patterns and the mo…
The Effect of Rh-Negative Disease on Perinatal Mortality
The Rh-negative gene is a well-known cause of perinatal mortality. In this article, we analyze the possible role of Rh disease in perinatal mortality and stillbirths in a particular historical setting: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden between 1860 and 1900. The data used for the study cover 23,067 children born to 4,943 women. The exact impact is not possible to establish using historical data, but the typical pattern of the disease allow…
Old age, health and social inequality
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 of social class in working age populations. Not much is known about social differences
Do unequal societies cause death among the elderly? A study of the health effects of inequality in Swedish municipalities in 2006
BACKGROUND: A lively public and academic debate has highlighted the potential health risks of living in regions characterized by inequality. Research provides an ambiguous picture, however, with positive association between income equality and health mainly being found on higher levels of geographical division, such as nations, but rarely at local level. METHODS: We examined the association between income inequality (using the Gini coefficient) a…
The influence of seasonal climate variability on mortality in pre-industrial Sweden
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown an association between weather and climatic factors with mortality, cardiovascular and infectious diseases. We used historical data to investigate the impact of seasonal temperature and precipitation on total mortality in Uppsala, Sweden, during the first two stages of the demographic transition, 1749-1859. DESIGN: We retrieved mortality and population numbers of the Uppsala Domkyrka parish from digitised par…
Association of Seasonal Climate Variability and Age-Specific Mortality in Northern Sweden before the Onset of Industrialization
In this pre-industrial rural region in northern Sweden, higher levels of rain during the autumn increased the annual number of deaths. Harvest quality might be one critical factor in the causal pathway, affecting nutritional status and susceptibility to infectious diseases. Autumn rain probably also contributed to the spread of air-borne diseases in crowded living conditions. Children beyond infancy appeared most vulnerable to climate impacts
Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses
Research benefits a great deal when different kinds of registers can be combined. Record linkage is an important tool for connecting sources to create longitudinal databases of individual data. In this article, researchers test and evaluate different methods of record linkage used when linking two censuses. By comparing the results of the census linkage with other continuous Swedish parish registers, they find that applying constructed name varia…
Gender and fertility within the free churches in the Sundsvall region, Sweden, 1860–1921
The role of secularization in the European fertility decline has been of interest to demographers, who often explore the relationship on a macro-level or by identifying religious affiliation by proxy. However, the relationship has not been thoroughly studied on an individual level utilizing indicators of personal religious conviction and affiliation. The aim of the present article is to examine reproductive practices by religious affiliation in o…
A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research
This paper presents the longitudinal database POPLINK, which has been developed at the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University, Sweden. Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic tran…
On the association between weather variability and total and cause-specific mortality before and during industrialization in Sweden
While there is ample evidence for health risks associated with heat and other extreme weather events today, little is known about the impact of weather patterns on population health in preindustrial societies
Intergenerational Transfers of Infant Mortality in 19th-Century Northern Sweden
This contribution is part of an international comparative initiative with the aim to assess the analytical power of the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) in a study of possible intergenerational transmissions of death in infancy. An evaluation of the data in applied research will be useful for further development of the IDS structure and for its future use in comparative research. An additional methodological aim for this part of the study is to …
A Database for the Future. Major Contributions from 47 Years of Database Development and Research at the Demographic Data Base
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal population databases and disseminating data for research. The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use t…
Income inequality and old-age mortality in Sweden
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 have disabilities, and to compare them with a group of non-disabled cases. The findings concern a 19th-century population of 35,610 individuals in the Sund…
The Demographic Database — History of Technical and Methodological Achievements
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal population databases and disseminating data for research. The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use t…
Introduction
Over the last 60 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations spanning decades have been launched. The development of these databases is indicative of considerable investments that have greatly expanded the possibilities for new research within the fields of history, demography, sociology, as well as other disciplines. In this volume spanning seven articles, eight databases are included that have h…
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