Anders Brändström
Biographic Data
| ID | 1592278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Brändström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Brändström |
| SIGNATURE | BRÄNDSTRÖM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2699-806X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Long-term changes in the characteristics of one-person households in Sweden, 1960-2018
Today, more people than ever live in one-person households (OPHs). Sweden’s OPH population started to grow in the 1960s, and today the country has one of the highest proportions in the world, reaching almost 40% of all households. However, despite an internationally high share of OPHs, little is known about the longterm changes in the Swedish OPH population’s composition. By utilizing register data covering the entire Swedish population at 5year …
Retirement, Home Care and the Importance of Gender
In recent decades elderly care policies in Sweden have been characterized by a marked shift from institutional care to home care. Previous research has highlighted how this has resulted in the elderly receiving care at a higher age and increased reliance on family and kin for providing care. Using register data for the entire Swedish population aged 65+ in 2016, we analyze how home care services in contemporary Sweden distribute regarding individ…
Linnaeus
Linnaeus, died in 1778 but his spirit lives on in the many classification systems he developed, as well as in a more recent Swedish innovation, the Linnaeus Database (1), a major contributor to an understanding of ageing from a life course perspective. Linnaeus is widely regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy, responsible (in 1735) for introducing the concept of hierarchical ordering of botanical and zoological classification. Although new wa…
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…
Marriage and urban adaption
In this article marriage and urban adaption in two Swedish towns, Linköping and Sundsvall, during the early phase of Swedish industrialization, have been studied.The results stress the danger of generalization when discussing the inter-relationsship between industrialization and urban démographie behaviour. The industrial town, represented by Sundsvall, even if it displayed a very specific "industrial migration", did not necessarily produce an eq…
TWO Cities Urban Migration and Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
This article examines how migrants settled and formed families in two Swedish towns—Linköping and Sundsvall—with different occupational structures during industrialization. Sex- and socio-economic differentials in the rural–urban and urban–urban migration are discussed, as well as persistence rates in the new urban environment among different social groups. Analysis of in-migration and marriage patterns shows that social and geographical endogamy…
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
Illegitimacy and Lone-Parenthood in XIXth Century Sweden
The article analyses illegitimate births as a life course phenomenon for women in the Sundsvall region in northern Sweden during the nineteenth century. In the middle of the century 9% of all children were born out of wedlock in Sweden. By the end of the nineteenth century their numbers had increased to 11%. Illegitimacy was mainly concentrated to urban areas. In the town of Sundsvall it exceeded 20% during the second half of the nineteenth centu…
The demographic database at Umeå university in Sweden
Biometric Modeling n the Study of Infant Mortality
In this study we investigate a well-known biometric model of infant mortality that has been used both to distinguish major causes of mortality before 1 year of age and to examine historical data to identify possible underregistration of infant mortality particularly that which occurred shortly after birth. We show that arguments for the under-registration of infant deaths based solely on the biometric model cannot be supported empirically and are…
Life histories of single parents and illegitimate infants in nineteenth-century Sweden
This essay presents tentative findings for the Sundsvall area of Sweden, which is being studied in a recent project on the decline of infant and childhood mortality in the Nordic countries. The focus is on the complete reproductive histories of single mothers and the life expectancies among infants born to women who at least once in their reproductive life history experienced the birth of an illegitimate child. In Sundsvall, industrialization onl…
Life-Histories for Nineteenth-Century Swedish Hospital Patients
The life histories of nineteenth-century Swedish hospital patients challenge the notion that hospitals were mainly occupied with the "industrious poor," and gives some support to the idea that hospitals were "death-traps." The latter idea is reviewed through an examination of the treatment of various diseases and of the life expectancies after dismissal in comparison with the life expectancies of people who never had to enter a hospital. The stud…
The Impact of Female Labour Conditions on Infant Mortality
In much research into trends in infant mortality in nineteenth-century Europe explanations have recently tended to be focused on changes in infant feeding practices and alterations to the sexual division of labour. Rarely has this research been conducted at the level of individual families within specified communities. Infant mortality in Sweden fell steadily through the nineteenth century from 200 per 1, 000 live births in 1800 to 100 in 1900. T…
Tradition and Transition
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…
Life histories of single parents and illegitimate infants in nineteenth-century Sweden
This essay presents tentative findings for the Sundsvall area of Sweden, which is being studied in a recent project on the decline of infant and childhood mortality in the Nordic countries. The focus is on the complete reproductive histories of single mothers and the life expectancies among infants born to women who at least once in their reproductive life history experienced the birth of an illegitimate child. In Sundsvall, industrialization onl…
The Impact of Female Labour Conditions on Infant Mortality
In much research into trends in infant mortality in nineteenth-century Europe explanations have recently tended to be focused on changes in infant feeding practices and alterations to the sexual division of labour. Rarely has this research been conducted at the level of individual families within specified communities. Infant mortality in Sweden fell steadily through the nineteenth century from 200 per 1, 000 live births in 1800 to 100 in 1900. T…
TWO Cities Urban Migration and Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
This article examines how migrants settled and formed families in two Swedish towns—Linköping and Sundsvall—with different occupational structures during industrialization. Sex- and socio-economic differentials in the rural–urban and urban–urban migration are discussed, as well as persistence rates in the new urban environment among different social groups. Analysis of in-migration and marriage patterns shows that social and geographical endogamy…
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
Biometric Modeling n the Study of Infant Mortality
In this study we investigate a well-known biometric model of infant mortality that has been used both to distinguish major causes of mortality before 1 year of age and to examine historical data to identify possible underregistration of infant mortality particularly that which occurred shortly after birth. We show that arguments for the under-registration of infant deaths based solely on the biometric model cannot be supported empirically and are…
Life-Histories for Nineteenth-Century Swedish Hospital Patients
The life histories of nineteenth-century Swedish hospital patients challenge the notion that hospitals were mainly occupied with the "industrious poor," and gives some support to the idea that hospitals were "death-traps." The latter idea is reviewed through an examination of the treatment of various diseases and of the life expectancies after dismissal in comparison with the life expectancies of people who never had to enter a hospital. The stud…
Tradition and Transition
The Impact of Female Labour Conditions on Infant Mortality
In much research into trends in infant mortality in nineteenth-century Europe explanations have recently tended to be focused on changes in infant feeding practices and alterations to the sexual division of labour. Rarely has this research been conducted at the level of individual families within specified communities. Infant mortality in Sweden fell steadily through the nineteenth century from 200 per 1, 000 live births in 1800 to 100 in 1900. T…
Life-Histories for Nineteenth-Century Swedish Hospital Patients
The life histories of nineteenth-century Swedish hospital patients challenge the notion that hospitals were mainly occupied with the "industrious poor," and gives some support to the idea that hospitals were "death-traps." The latter idea is reviewed through an examination of the treatment of various diseases and of the life expectancies after dismissal in comparison with the life expectancies of people who never had to enter a hospital. The stud…
Life histories of single parents and illegitimate infants in nineteenth-century Sweden
This essay presents tentative findings for the Sundsvall area of Sweden, which is being studied in a recent project on the decline of infant and childhood mortality in the Nordic countries. The focus is on the complete reproductive histories of single mothers and the life expectancies among infants born to women who at least once in their reproductive life history experienced the birth of an illegitimate child. In Sundsvall, industrialization onl…
Biometric Modeling n the Study of Infant Mortality
In this study we investigate a well-known biometric model of infant mortality that has been used both to distinguish major causes of mortality before 1 year of age and to examine historical data to identify possible underregistration of infant mortality particularly that which occurred shortly after birth. We show that arguments for the under-registration of infant deaths based solely on the biometric model cannot be supported empirically and are…
Illegitimacy and Lone-Parenthood in XIXth Century Sweden
The article analyses illegitimate births as a life course phenomenon for women in the Sundsvall region in northern Sweden during the nineteenth century. In the middle of the century 9% of all children were born out of wedlock in Sweden. By the end of the nineteenth century their numbers had increased to 11%. Illegitimacy was mainly concentrated to urban areas. In the town of Sundsvall it exceeded 20% during the second half of the nineteenth centu…
The demographic database at Umeå university in Sweden
Marriage and urban adaption
In this article marriage and urban adaption in two Swedish towns, Linköping and Sundsvall, during the early phase of Swedish industrialization, have been studied.The results stress the danger of generalization when discussing the inter-relationsship between industrialization and urban démographie behaviour. The industrial town, represented by Sundsvall, even if it displayed a very specific "industrial migration", did not necessarily produce an eq…
TWO Cities Urban Migration and Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
This article examines how migrants settled and formed families in two Swedish towns—Linköping and Sundsvall—with different occupational structures during industrialization. Sex- and socio-economic differentials in the rural–urban and urban–urban migration are discussed, as well as persistence rates in the new urban environment among different social groups. Analysis of in-migration and marriage patterns shows that social and geographical endogamy…
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…
Linnaeus
Linnaeus, died in 1778 but his spirit lives on in the many classification systems he developed, as well as in a more recent Swedish innovation, the Linnaeus Database (1), a major contributor to an understanding of ageing from a life course perspective. Linnaeus is widely regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy, responsible (in 1735) for introducing the concept of hierarchical ordering of botanical and zoological classification. Although new wa…
Retirement, Home Care and the Importance of Gender
In recent decades elderly care policies in Sweden have been characterized by a marked shift from institutional care to home care. Previous research has highlighted how this has resulted in the elderly receiving care at a higher age and increased reliance on family and kin for providing care. Using register data for the entire Swedish population aged 65+ in 2016, we analyze how home care services in contemporary Sweden distribute regarding individ…
Long-term changes in the characteristics of one-person households in Sweden, 1960-2018
Today, more people than ever live in one-person households (OPHs). Sweden’s OPH population started to grow in the 1960s, and today the country has one of the highest proportions in the world, reaching almost 40% of all households. However, despite an internationally high share of OPHs, little is known about the longterm changes in the Swedish OPH population’s composition. By utilizing register data covering the entire Swedish population at 5year …
Sociology (14 works) · Demography (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Infant mortality (4 works)