[EQ] Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice

Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice

 

Jan Sundin and Sam Willner

Swedish National  Institute of Public Health, 2008

 

Available online PDF [252p.] at: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200721_Social_change_and_health_in_Sweden0801.pdf

 

Contents

1. 250 years of public health

Health transition after 1750

Aims, concepts and perspectives

2. Pre-Enlightenment: Life and death in God’s hand

3. Mercantilism, the Enlightenment and the birth of epidemiology

4. Society in transition: Population growth, proletarianisation and increased life expectancy (c. 1800–1870)

5. Industrialisation and hygienism (c. 1870–1920)

6. Between two wars: Towards the Swedish welfare state (1920–1945)

The epidemiological regime

Social and regional differences

The institutionalisation of maternal and child healthcare

District nurses in the line of public health duty

The fight against tuberculosis

The Bratt system – solidarity among decent folk

Solving societal problems with the help of “social medicine”

Social utopia: Scientific faith and paternalism

From urban to rural health risks: “Dirty Sweden” goes rural

The birth of the welfare state

7. Harvest time for welfare policy and medical progress (1945–2006)

Epidemiological trends

Men and women

Social differences in health

Regional differences in mortality

Harvest time for the welfare state

Urbanisation, housing crisis and the “million-homes” programme

Biomedical progress .

The health service in economic crisis

Occupational and environmental health risks

Swedish Public Health Institute

Epidemiology, risk factors and health

Restructuring the economy, social stress and health

Care of the body, the perfect body ideal and health as market commodities

Swedish public health in a global individualistic world .

A comprehensive Swedish public health policy

Health – a field of compromise

8. Conclusions – lessons from the past

Social determinants and health – a Swedish example

Health and the response of society

Health and social change .

Sweden and its European neighbours – converging systems .

Swedish history and the world today

Health and lessons from history

Reference list

Appendix .

 

 

 

 

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