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TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - VARGA, Gabriella: A comparative study of the social-political determinants of infant and child mortality in Sweden and Hungary 1850-1945. - Összehasonlító tanulmány a svéd és a magyar csecsemőhalandóság szociálpolitikai tényezőiről 1850 és 1945 között

Figure 1. Proximal, intermediate and distal determinants - after Mosley and Chen, 1984 Material from Sweden In Sweden the church has registered all individuals above the age of 6 or 7 years since the middle of the 17

th century. Good quality time-series can be found starting from 1750 at the SCB. Material from Hungary Although death registration has been compulsory since 1788 everywhere in the AustroHungarian Monarchy - wherever there was a physician in office - earliest official statistical time-series in Hungary date from 1870. Data from the period before 1870 originates from articles archives. We could only find health reports since 1875 in the KSH. I did not do any research in the archives due to the limitations of this study. In this paper we always consider Hungarys actual official territory at the discussed time period. In 1867, the Habsburg Empire was transformed into Austro-Hungarian Dual Monar-