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Papers by Jan Sundin
Medical History, 2007
For more than two decades, the relation between health, social change and politics has been a pri... more For more than two decades, the relation between health, social change and politics has been a primary target for Simon Szreter's historical studies. The present book is mainly a collection of previously published and slightly revised articles with an added introduction and final reflections. The empirical example is Great Britain during the nineteenth and, to a lesser extent, twentieth century, but his conclusions concerning the threats of social disruption caused by rapid change are general indeed. One article, ‘Economic growth, disruption, deprivation, disease and death’, published in 1997, has been widely read and quoted by historians, scholars and practitioners interested in the fate of contemporary developing societies. Later, Szreter has used “linking social capital” as a tool to understand why some societies are healthier than others. One of the articles is written together with Michael Woolcock, where this concept incorporates politics, the state and other formal and inf...
Archivaria, 1982
JAN SUNDIN and IAN WINCHESTER Databases, as they presently exist, all share more or less the same... more JAN SUNDIN and IAN WINCHESTER Databases, as they presently exist, all share more or less the same general character. They are all generated for some specific purpose or class of purposes. And this generation is invariably brought about by laborious manual procedures. The present writers have been involved in the production and use of two historical databases, one in Canada (Winchester) and one in Sweden (Sundin). The Canadian one was generated for the purpose of studying mainly the social structure of a single nineteenth century Canadian city, Hamilton, Ontario. The Swedish one was generated mainly for studying a variety of rural regions in nineteenth century Sweden. The Canadian database used mainly census records and assessment rolls at decade intervals. The Swedish database used mainly parish registers which give a near continuous record of census-like data. Our purpose in this article is to draw upon our experience both to characterize databases of the kind useful to historians as they presently exist as well as to try to characterize what the next generation of databases might be like, namely, intelligent databases. At the present time, a "database" is a notion associated with computerized data, stored on punch cards, magnetic tapes, discs or other media readable by a computer. One must also distinguish here between a database and computerized data in general. A database, in some minimal sense of that notion, must consist of data organized for a purpose, which can be more or less limited or specified in detail. There should also exist a system producing this organization of data as well as a definite system for exploiting it or using it. Finally, the data and its systems of production and exploitation should be documented in such a way that the entire operation can be understood by someone wishing to reproduce it, use it, or add to it. Computerized data which does not possess the necessary qualities of purposeful organization, systematic production, systematic means for utilization and adequate documentation should, perhaps, be called a "databank" or a "dataset" or a "datafile," or something else. Such computerized data, and, indeed, non-computerized data, can sometimes with effort be transformed into a database. But it is the systematic embodiment of purpose, production, utilization, and documentation which makes databases the enormously useful things they are for social historians.
This is a collection of articles concerning the study of historical population trends in Sweden. ... more This is a collection of articles concerning the study of historical population trends in Sweden. Special attention is paid to the different methods used in data collection and analysis and to the impact of cultural norms and attitudes on regional differences and on changes in demographic patterns. Chapters are included on the effects of child care on infant mortality in a Swedish parish from 1820 to 1894; mortality and morbidity in Swedish iron foundries 1750-1875; the completeness of nineteenth-century population registers and their use in the study of family life history; the fertility decline in Sweden at the beginning of the twentieth century; and the content and use of the Demographic Data Base at Umea University.
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2003
Nutzungsbedingungen: Dieser Text wird unter einer Deposit-Lizenz (Keine Weiterverbreitung-keine B... more Nutzungsbedingungen: Dieser Text wird unter einer Deposit-Lizenz (Keine Weiterverbreitung-keine Bearbeitung) zur Verfügung gestellt. Gewährt wird ein nicht exklusives, nicht übertragbares, persönliches und beschränktes Recht auf Nutzung dieses Dokuments. Dieses Dokument ist ausschließlich für den persönlichen, nicht-kommerziellen Gebrauch bestimmt. Auf sämtlichen Kopien dieses Dokuments müssen alle Urheberrechtshinweise und sonstigen Hinweise auf gesetzlichen Schutz beibehalten werden. Sie dürfen dieses Dokument nicht in irgendeiner Weise abändern, noch dürfen Sie dieses Dokument für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, aufführen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Mit der Verwendung dieses Dokuments erkennen Sie die Nutzungsbedingungen an. Terms of use: This document is made available under Deposit Licence (No Redistribution-no modifications). We grant a non-exclusive, nontransferable, individual and limited right to using this document. This document is solely intended for your personal, noncommercial use. All of the copies of this documents must retain all copyright information and other information regarding legal protection. You are not allowed to alter this document in any way, to copy it for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the document in public, to perform, distribute or otherwise use the document in public. By using this particular document, you accept the above-stated conditions of use.
As the coordinator of the PHOENIX Thematic Network working group on “Welfare, Health and Social C... more As the coordinator of the PHOENIX Thematic Network working group on “Welfare, Health and Social Change”, it is my honour to be guest editor of this special issue of Studia Sociologia. The articles emerge from a workshop held in Cluj in September 2007, aiming at a deeper understanding of the c omplex relationship between social change, welfare and health, bringing together scholars from many parts of Europe. In comparatively affluent western societies, socio‐economic and demographic change is affecting the life conditions for large parts of the population. China’s changing and growing economy is bringing rapid prosperity to certain groups, while at the same time causing greater inequalities in social safety, access to health services and to health itself. Developing countries are facing divergent trends, sometimes growing wealth and better health, sometimes more illness and death. Looking back in history, we find similar processes and events, which have affected welfare and health in visible ways. Typical groups of winners and losers can be identified and, for instance, the vulnerability of adult men (measured by cause and age specific mortality figures) has been evident in several cases. The role of social cohesion and political and institutional response (or non‐response) to these social realities has been already extensively argued. In former socialist states from Central and Eastern Europe, the transformations towards democracy and free market have had profound, in some cases dramatic, effects on people’s health and life expectancy. It has been a privilege for the PHOENIX network to welcome many members of the academia from that part of Europe, providing us with deeper insights and understanding of the history and present state in their countries and contributing to a comparative and theoretical analysis. The authors of the articles of this issue give us interesting and illuminating examples of recent trends regarding health status, public health, welfare policies and their implementations. Both globalisation and local circumstances are playing important roles for the outcome. In the light of the economic and social constraints that threaten to follow upon the recent financial breakdown and general recession of the world economy, it becomes even more important to analyse and draw informed conclusions regarding the potential consequences of rapid change.
European journal of public health, Oct 20, 2017
Medical History, Jul 1, 2007
Health Care and Government Policy
Studia historica Jyväskyläensia, 1983
2020-04-27T09:06:03
Infant mortality in a changing society : The effects of child care in a Swedish parish 1820-1894
Control, punishment and reconciliation : A case study of parish justice in Sweden before 1850
Medical History, 2007
For more than two decades, the relation between health, social change and politics has been a pri... more For more than two decades, the relation between health, social change and politics has been a primary target for Simon Szreter's historical studies. The present book is mainly a collection of previously published and slightly revised articles with an added introduction and final reflections. The empirical example is Great Britain during the nineteenth and, to a lesser extent, twentieth century, but his conclusions concerning the threats of social disruption caused by rapid change are general indeed. One article, ‘Economic growth, disruption, deprivation, disease and death’, published in 1997, has been widely read and quoted by historians, scholars and practitioners interested in the fate of contemporary developing societies. Later, Szreter has used “linking social capital” as a tool to understand why some societies are healthier than others. One of the articles is written together with Michael Woolcock, where this concept incorporates politics, the state and other formal and inf...
Archivaria, 1982
JAN SUNDIN and IAN WINCHESTER Databases, as they presently exist, all share more or less the same... more JAN SUNDIN and IAN WINCHESTER Databases, as they presently exist, all share more or less the same general character. They are all generated for some specific purpose or class of purposes. And this generation is invariably brought about by laborious manual procedures. The present writers have been involved in the production and use of two historical databases, one in Canada (Winchester) and one in Sweden (Sundin). The Canadian one was generated for the purpose of studying mainly the social structure of a single nineteenth century Canadian city, Hamilton, Ontario. The Swedish one was generated mainly for studying a variety of rural regions in nineteenth century Sweden. The Canadian database used mainly census records and assessment rolls at decade intervals. The Swedish database used mainly parish registers which give a near continuous record of census-like data. Our purpose in this article is to draw upon our experience both to characterize databases of the kind useful to historians as they presently exist as well as to try to characterize what the next generation of databases might be like, namely, intelligent databases. At the present time, a "database" is a notion associated with computerized data, stored on punch cards, magnetic tapes, discs or other media readable by a computer. One must also distinguish here between a database and computerized data in general. A database, in some minimal sense of that notion, must consist of data organized for a purpose, which can be more or less limited or specified in detail. There should also exist a system producing this organization of data as well as a definite system for exploiting it or using it. Finally, the data and its systems of production and exploitation should be documented in such a way that the entire operation can be understood by someone wishing to reproduce it, use it, or add to it. Computerized data which does not possess the necessary qualities of purposeful organization, systematic production, systematic means for utilization and adequate documentation should, perhaps, be called a "databank" or a "dataset" or a "datafile," or something else. Such computerized data, and, indeed, non-computerized data, can sometimes with effort be transformed into a database. But it is the systematic embodiment of purpose, production, utilization, and documentation which makes databases the enormously useful things they are for social historians.
This is a collection of articles concerning the study of historical population trends in Sweden. ... more This is a collection of articles concerning the study of historical population trends in Sweden. Special attention is paid to the different methods used in data collection and analysis and to the impact of cultural norms and attitudes on regional differences and on changes in demographic patterns. Chapters are included on the effects of child care on infant mortality in a Swedish parish from 1820 to 1894; mortality and morbidity in Swedish iron foundries 1750-1875; the completeness of nineteenth-century population registers and their use in the study of family life history; the fertility decline in Sweden at the beginning of the twentieth century; and the content and use of the Demographic Data Base at Umea University.
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2003
Nutzungsbedingungen: Dieser Text wird unter einer Deposit-Lizenz (Keine Weiterverbreitung-keine B... more Nutzungsbedingungen: Dieser Text wird unter einer Deposit-Lizenz (Keine Weiterverbreitung-keine Bearbeitung) zur Verfügung gestellt. Gewährt wird ein nicht exklusives, nicht übertragbares, persönliches und beschränktes Recht auf Nutzung dieses Dokuments. Dieses Dokument ist ausschließlich für den persönlichen, nicht-kommerziellen Gebrauch bestimmt. Auf sämtlichen Kopien dieses Dokuments müssen alle Urheberrechtshinweise und sonstigen Hinweise auf gesetzlichen Schutz beibehalten werden. Sie dürfen dieses Dokument nicht in irgendeiner Weise abändern, noch dürfen Sie dieses Dokument für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, aufführen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Mit der Verwendung dieses Dokuments erkennen Sie die Nutzungsbedingungen an. Terms of use: This document is made available under Deposit Licence (No Redistribution-no modifications). We grant a non-exclusive, nontransferable, individual and limited right to using this document. This document is solely intended for your personal, noncommercial use. All of the copies of this documents must retain all copyright information and other information regarding legal protection. You are not allowed to alter this document in any way, to copy it for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the document in public, to perform, distribute or otherwise use the document in public. By using this particular document, you accept the above-stated conditions of use.
As the coordinator of the PHOENIX Thematic Network working group on “Welfare, Health and Social C... more As the coordinator of the PHOENIX Thematic Network working group on “Welfare, Health and Social Change”, it is my honour to be guest editor of this special issue of Studia Sociologia. The articles emerge from a workshop held in Cluj in September 2007, aiming at a deeper understanding of the c omplex relationship between social change, welfare and health, bringing together scholars from many parts of Europe. In comparatively affluent western societies, socio‐economic and demographic change is affecting the life conditions for large parts of the population. China’s changing and growing economy is bringing rapid prosperity to certain groups, while at the same time causing greater inequalities in social safety, access to health services and to health itself. Developing countries are facing divergent trends, sometimes growing wealth and better health, sometimes more illness and death. Looking back in history, we find similar processes and events, which have affected welfare and health in visible ways. Typical groups of winners and losers can be identified and, for instance, the vulnerability of adult men (measured by cause and age specific mortality figures) has been evident in several cases. The role of social cohesion and political and institutional response (or non‐response) to these social realities has been already extensively argued. In former socialist states from Central and Eastern Europe, the transformations towards democracy and free market have had profound, in some cases dramatic, effects on people’s health and life expectancy. It has been a privilege for the PHOENIX network to welcome many members of the academia from that part of Europe, providing us with deeper insights and understanding of the history and present state in their countries and contributing to a comparative and theoretical analysis. The authors of the articles of this issue give us interesting and illuminating examples of recent trends regarding health status, public health, welfare policies and their implementations. Both globalisation and local circumstances are playing important roles for the outcome. In the light of the economic and social constraints that threaten to follow upon the recent financial breakdown and general recession of the world economy, it becomes even more important to analyse and draw informed conclusions regarding the potential consequences of rapid change.
European journal of public health, Oct 20, 2017
Medical History, Jul 1, 2007
Health Care and Government Policy
Studia historica Jyväskyläensia, 1983
2020-04-27T09:06:03
Infant mortality in a changing society : The effects of child care in a Swedish parish 1820-1894
Control, punishment and reconciliation : A case study of parish justice in Sweden before 1850