Infant mortality in mid‐19th century Amsterdam: Religion, social class, and space

Ekamper, P.; Poppel, F.W.A. van

doi:10.1002/psp.2232

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“…The relationship observed between the socio-economic status and mortality during the old demographic regime differs with other historical research, which predominantly studies populations from northern and central Europe, in which the presence of a social gradient in mortality is a relatively recent phenomenon (Bengtsson et al, 2020;Ekamper & van Poppel, 2019;Razzell & Spence, 2006;Schenk & Van Poppel, 2011). In this sense, our results coincide with the little evidence available for some southern European countries (Breschi et al, 2011;Fornasin et al, 2016).…”

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Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)

Haro

Pujadas-Mora

Gómez

2021

Economics & Human Biology

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The objective of this study is to gain more comprehensive knowledge about social inequality in mortality in pre-industrial periods. With this aim, we have reconstructed the life courses of the inhabitants of the town of Vera in south-east Spain for the period 1797-1812 in order to estimate the influence of socio-economic status on ordinary and extraordinary mortality, given that, during this period, the town suffered from several epidemic outbreaks of yellow fever. As a result of these outbreaks, around a quarter of the town's population died. The results obtained indicate social inequality in mortality at least from the end of the eighteenth century. Although the differences are higher in mortality caused by non-infectious diseases or ill-defined causes, the coefficients also show a certain social gradient in mortality derived from infectious diseases. However, with respect to this latter type of mortality, the place of residence -seems to have a greater influence on the chances of survival than socio-economic status.

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Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)

Haro

Pujadas-Mora

Gómez

2021

Economics & Human Biology

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“…Their findings revealed that the effect of cold temperature at birth varied according to socioeconomic status, with the highest cold-related mortality risk found among the infants of landless rural laborer's [20]. In the Netherlands, Ekamper et al [19] showed that, from 1850 to 1954, the relationship between daily average temperature and age-specific mortality was strongest among infants (<1 year), in which both extremely high and low temperatures significantly increased the risk of infant mortality.…”

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“…While previous studies of the association between temperature and neonatal mortality among historical populations mainly used month of birth as a proxy for temperature or monthly mean temperatures [6], studies that include daily temperatures are limited [19,20]. In this study, we aimed to unravel the association between local daily temperature conditions and neonatal mortality in two Swedish rural parishes between 1860 and 1899.…”

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Neonatal Mortality and Temperature in Two Northern Swedish Rural Parishes, 1860–1899—The Significance of Ethnicity and Gender

Karlsson

Lundevaller

Schumann

2020

IJERPH

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The aim of this study was to analyze the association between season of birth and daily temperature for neonatal mortality in two Swedish rural parishes between 1860 and 1899. Further, we aimed to study whether the association varied according to ethnicity (indigenous Sami reindeer herders and non-Sami settlers) and gender. The source material for this study comprised digitized parish records from the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, combined with local weather data provided by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Using a time event-history approach, we investigated the association between daily temperature (at birth and up to 28 days after birth) and the risk of neonatal death during the coldest months (November through March). The results showed that Sami neonatal mortality was highest during winter and that the Sami neonatal mortality risk decreased with higher temperatures on the day of birth. Male neonatal risk decreased with higher temperatures during the days following birth, while no effect of temperature was observed among female neonates. We conclude that weather vulnerability differed between genders and between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations.

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“…These new research areas which can be explored include the role of neighborhood characteristics in topics such as infant mortality, marriage rates and changing fertility patterns. An example of research in this area is provided by Ekamper and van Poppel (2019). They use a GIS dataset of Amsterdam to illustrate the effects of sociodemographic characteristics, residential environment, as well as health and sanitation conditions on infant mortality and stillbirth outcome.…”

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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database

Jenkinson¹,

Anguita²,

Paiva³

et al. 2020

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The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. The database is constructed from the 2010 release of the Antwerp COR*-historical demographic database, which was created using a letter sample of the whole district of Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). It has a total sample size of +/- 33,000 residents of Antwerp. The sample spans nearly seven decades. The data is collected from historical records: including population registers and vital registration records covering births, marriages, in/external migrations and deaths. The database covers up to three linked generations (in some cases more), and contains micro-data on individual level life courses, and relationships deriving from addressbased household composition methods. An important characteristic is the sample's large migrant population, including the timings of their demographic events and living arrangements, whilst resident in the district of Antwerp. In addition, the sample also contains a large array of occupational level information. This paper presents the processes, methodologies and documentation regarding the evaluation and development of a pre-existing historical database. This includes the systematic evaluation of the original samples, methodologies for address based reconstructing of households, and the geocoding of a historical database which took place during the current development of this new version of the database.

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Infant mortality in mid‐19th century Amsterdam: Religion, social class, and space

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)

Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)

Neonatal Mortality and Temperature in Two Northern Swedish Rural Parishes, 1860–1899—The Significance of Ethnicity and Gender

The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database

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