Breast-Feeding Habits and Their Relation To Infant Mortality and Marital Fertility
| Autor: | Ulla-Britt Lithell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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education.field_of_study
060106 history of social sciences business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Population Breastfeeding Fertility 06 humanities and the arts medicine.disease Measles Infant mortality 060104 history Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Medicine Weaning 0601 history and archaeology education business Breast feeding Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cause of death Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Family History. 6:182-194 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5473 0363-1990 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/036319908100600204 |
| Popis: | This article deals with the breastfeeding habits fertility and infant mortality of populations in 3 parishes in the 19th century. 2 of the parishes Rodon and Umea are in Sweden; 1 Petalax is in Finland. The infant mortality rates for children aged 1-6 months were 175/1000 in Petalax 123.8/1000 in Umea and 36.8 for Rodon. In Petalax and Umea children were seldom or never breastfed. Petalax records show the cause of death as colic diarrhea stroke or epidemic diseases such as smallpox or measles. Infant mortality was highest in the summer in Petalax and Umea; it was consistent throughout the year in Rodon. 3% were stillborn in Rodon from 1820-49 and only 1.5% in Petalax from 1827-59. The peak of births occurred from March to May. The high infant mortality rate in Umea during the summer may have resulted from weaning children when the harvest began. The study shows an association between short birth interval after the birth of a surviving child and high infant mortality as well as an association between a long birth interval after the birth of a surviving child and low infant mortality on the family level in Petalax. Most women did not breastfeed their children. The women worked in the fields in the summer an important reason for intermittent or short duration of breastfeeding. |
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