Session 24
Health and Well-being of the Youngest: Infant and Child Mortality

Note: Due to the pandemic the original sessions have been cancelled.
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Chair: Alice Reid, University of Cambridge

1. Neonatal Mortality and Temperature in Two Northern Swedish Rural Parishes, 1860-1899: the Significance of Ethnicity and GenderLena Karlsson , Umeå University; Erling Lundevaller, Umeå University; Barbara Schumann, erling.lundevaller.umu.se.

2. Social Inequality in Cause-Specific Infant Mortality at the Dawn of the Demographic Transition: New Insights from German Church RecordsMichael Muehlichen , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Gabriele Doblhammer, University of Rostock Institute for Sociology and demography.

3. Distinctive Phases in Immune Vulnerability of Infants? Insights from the Analysis of Mortality by Age and Season in Historic Scotland.Beata Nowok , University of Edinburgh; Chris Dibben, University of Edinburgh.

4. Child and Infant Mortality in 19th Century Hungary from-Micro Perspective: The Impact of Parents’ Widowhood and Remarriage on Their Children’s Survival, a Comparative AnalysisPéter Öri , Hungarian Demographic Research Institute.

5. Consequences of Infant Adoption in Taiwan, 1906-1945: the Impact of Regional Context and Household Composition on Child MortalityTim Riswick , Radboud University.

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