A5055722200- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
- Rural development and sustainability
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Social Issues and Policies
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
Ghent University
1996-2022
Blindeninstitutsstiftung
2019
Ghent University Hospital
2014-2018
Leiden University
2015
Indiana University
2009
University of Michigan
2009
University of Liège
2003
Spatial inequalities in human development are of great concern to international organisations and national governments. Demographic indicators like the infant mortality rate important measures for determining these inequalities. Using demographic indic
The absence of occupational titles for women in historical censuses has stymied numerous scholars. Various authors have explained this phenomenon as carelessness or bias on the part census-takers. Women's work was little interest to authorities and census officials focused their efforts upon activities head household. While source triangulation can be a useful tool uncovering ‘hidden’ employment women, it is often complex time-consuming process. In article we outline an alternative deal with...
This essay introduces a special issue on The Lure of the City that examines attraction towns to unmarried men and women in Low Countries during early modern period nineteenth century. has relation between singles cities as its main focus. Singles were present disproportionately large numbers urban areas, but question is why? sets out historiographical framework for contributions issue, discusses sources methodologies used, provides brief overview evolution singleness Countries. all...
Life histories can often be reconstructed from administrative sources and other documents that report specific events, like birth, death, visiting a physician, applying for insurance, or using service. In passive registration system, individuals are not under continuous surveillance, subjects only known to present when an event occurs. When move out of the area without reporting their movements, censoring times those life unobserved. This paper describes new technique imputing missing exit...
Au cours du 19eme siecle, sous les coups de l’industrialisation et la mecanisation, part population active travaillant dans le secteur agricole a sensiblement diminue. Neanmoins, plupart des pays d’Europe occidentale demeurent, au debut 20eme majoritairement peuples d’une definie comme rurale [Rosener, 1994]. Ainsi, sur base d’un seuil standard fixant 5.000 habitants limite entre localites urbaines rurales, 66 % e...
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This article delves into the challenges and methodologies involved in mapping cancer trends across Belgium during twentieth century. Disease mapping, pioneered by John Snow Alfred Haviland, has been instrumental understanding spatial disease patterns. However, comprehensive studies for are notably scarce before 1960s, complicating comparisons over time. research addresses gap mortality century, using various indicators, geographical units, visualization approaches together with a tailored...
In the early 20th century, mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) was relatively uncommon. Most Western countries only faced a huge increase in deaths during second part of century [Grimmeau et al., 2015]. Belgium, trajectory CVD fatalities unfolded this manner: from 4% all 1850 9% 1910, 29% 1950 and 37% 1995, followed by decline 36% 2000 25% 2019 [Devos, 2006; STATBEL, 2022]. 2022, ranks as largest cause death Belgium [STATBEL, Regional differences were observed 1930s [Selleslags,...
Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in Western countries during 18th and 19th centuries, rising with industrialization urbanization, then declining 20th century due to improved living conditions, public health measures, medical advances. While epidemiology TB Belgium has been well described, spatial temporal features are less known. In this article, we examine mortality data from “Le Mouvement de la Population et l’État Civil” at municipality level between 1889 1991. We map...
At the beginning of twentieth century, life expectancy at birth was much lower in Flanders, northern part Belgium, than Wallonia, southern country. In literature, this excess mortality is mainly attributed to high levels infant caused by bad feeding practices and low-quality drinking water. The regional variability risks other ages during period has received less attention. article, we reconstruct age-, sex- disease-specific death rates for 41 districts Belgium around year 1910. To show...
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op gebied van de sociale economische geschiedenis
Résumé Les biographies sont souvent construites à partir de sources administratives et d’autres documents qui témoignent d’événements particuliers comme une naissance, un décès, visite chez le médecin, demande contrat d’assurance ou recours service. Dans système d’« enregistrement passif », les individus ne pas observés façon continue, mais lorsqu’un événement se produit. Quand personne quitte la zone couverte par d’enregistrement sans en faire déclaration, date d’interruption son histoire...