scholarly journals Intergenerational Transfers of Infant Mortality in 19th-Century Northern Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
Göran Broström ◽  
Sören Edvinsson ◽  
Elisabeth Engberg
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Intergenerational Transfers ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Analytical Power ◽  
Intergenerational Transmissions

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 evaluate and compare different models for statistical analysis of intergenerational transfers. The analysis is based on a cohort of mothers born 1826-1854, whose experiences of infant mortality are compared to the ones of the previous generation, the grandmothers. Data are collected from Swedish parish records, available in the database POPUM at the Demographic Data Base in Umeå. The analysis shows a clear association between infant mortality among mothers and grandmothers. The probability of an infant death for a woman is increased if her mother also had experienced an infant death. Having tested for different approaches of analysis, we found that simple models with few restrictive assumptions gave similar results as more complicated models. Since it is easy to feel confident in the models with the weakest assumptions, we argue that such models are preferred for this type of analysis.

scholarly journals Program for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions in Infant Mortality Using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Luciana Quaranta
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Intergenerational Transfers ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Death Clustering ◽  
Intergenerational Transmissions

Studies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status or parental care. A transmission of death clustering has also been found across generations. One way of expanding the knowledge on intergenerational transfers in infant mortality is by conducting comparable studies across different populations. The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) was developed as a strategy aimed at simplifying the collecting, storing and sharing of historical demographic data. The current work presents two programs that were developed in STATA to construct a dataset for analysis and run statistical models to study intergenerational transfers in infant mortality using databases that are stored in the IDS. The programs use information stored in the IDS tables and after elaborating such information produce Excel files with results. They can be used with any longitudinal database constructed from church books, civil registers, or population registers.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
Luciana Quaranta
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Southern Sweden ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
Rural Parishes ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Death Clustering ◽  
Early Life Exposures ◽  
Intergenerational Transmissions

Studies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance, early life exposures, and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status or parental care. A transmission of death clustering has also been found across generations. This paper is one of five studies that analyses intergenerational transmissions in infant mortality by using a common program to create the dataset for analysis and run the statistical models with data stored in the Intermediate Data Structure. The results of this study show that in five rural parishes in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden, during the years 1740-1968 infant mortality was transmitted across generations. Children whose maternal grandmothers experienced two or more infant deaths had higher risks of dying in infancy. The results remained consistent when restricting the sample only to cases where the grandmother had been observed for her entire reproductive history or when controlling for socioeconomic status. When running sex specific models, significant effects of the number of infant deaths of the grandmother were observed for girls but not for boys.

scholarly journals Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions of Infant Mortality using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Luciana Quaranta ◽  
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Maternal Line ◽  
Demographic Research ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Death Clustering ◽  
Intergenerational Transmissions

It has previously been shown that infant mortality clusters in a subset of families, a phenomenon which was observed in historical populations as well as contemporary developing countries. A transmission of death clustering across generations has also been shown in Belgium, but it is unknown whether such effects are specific to the studied context or are also found in other areas. The current article introduces a special issue devoted to analysing intergenerational transmissions of infant mortality across the maternal line in Belgium, the Netherlands, northern and southern Sweden, and Norway. Taking advantage of the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS), the five empirical studies created datasets for analysis and ran statistical models using exactly the same programs, which are also published within the special issue. These works are the first set of studies using the IDS on several databases for comparative purposes. Consistent results across the studied contexts were shown: transfers of infant mortality across the maternal line were seen in all five areas. In addition, the works have shown that there are large advantages of adopting the IDS for historical demographic research. The structure has in fact allowed researchers to conduct studies which were fully comparable, transparent and replicable.

scholarly journals The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Intergenerational Transfer ◽  
Maternal Line ◽  
Northern Norway ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Longitudinal Dataset

This paper is one of a series of five studying the intergenerational transfer of infant mortality down the maternal line. All five studies share the same theoretical and methodological design, and use data derived from a standard database format: the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS). The data for the research reported in this paper were derived from a longitudinal dataset covering the 19th and 20th century population of the province of Troms in Northern Norway. Our results suggest that there was an element of intergenerational transmission in women’s risk of experiencing an infant death; the children of a woman whose mother had had a high number of infant deaths also had a greater risk of dying before their first birthday. The risk of an infant death occurring among the children of daughters from such ‘high risk’ families was at least 30 per cent higher than that amongst infants born to the daughters of mothers who had experienced zero infant deaths.

scholarly journals Like Mother, Like Daughter. Intergenerational Transmission of Infant Mortality Clustering in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1833-1912

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Ingrid K. Van Dijk ◽  
Kees Mandemakers
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Infant Survival ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Intermediate Data ◽  
The Family

The burden of infant mortality is not shared equally by all families, but clusters in high risk families. As yet, it remains unclear why some families experience more infant deaths than other families. Earlier research has shown that the risk of early death among infants may at least partially be transmitted from grandmothers to mothers. In this paper, we focus on the intergenerational transmission of mortality clustering in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland between 1833 and 1912, using LINKS Zeeland, a dataset containing family reconstitutions based on civil certificates of birth, marriage and death. We assess whether intergenerational transmission of mortality clustering occurred in Zeeland, and if so, whether it can be explained on the basis of the demographic characteristics of the families in which the infants were born. In addition, we explore the opportunities for comparative research using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS). We find that mortality clustering is indeed transmitted from grandmothers to mothers, and that the socioeconomic status of the family, the survival of mothers and fathers, and the demographic characteristics of the family affected infant survival. However, they explain the heterogeneity in infant mortality at the level of the mother only partially.

scholarly journals Legislative science advice in Europe: the case for international comparative research

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kenny ◽  
Carla-Leanne Washbourne ◽  
Chris Tyler ◽  
Jason J. Blackstock
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
Science Advice ◽  
International Comparative

scholarly journals MUDHAGARBHA W.S.R. OBSTRUCTED LABOUR AND ITS APPLIED ASPECT

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Swati Bala ◽  
Kalpna Sharma ◽  
Prabhakar Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Applied Aspect ◽  
Obstructed Labour ◽  
Day By Day

Maternal and Infant mortality is still a big problem in Modern scenario. Different complications during preconception, antenatal, intranatal and postnatal period are increasing day by day. Ayurveda has given prime importance to Antenatal and Intranatal care of women and her baby. In spite of good care sometimes labour has unpredictable outcomes, previously normal labour suddenly landed up into abnormal or obstructed labour. In Ayurveda, obstructed labour has unique concepts and is explained under the term Mudagarbha. Obstructed labour is also a cause of maternal and infant death. In the present article an attempt is made to throw light on the very unique concept of Mudhagarbha described in Ayurveda and its scientific Concept.

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