Equitable Child Health Interventions: The Impact of Improved Water and Sanitation on Inequalities in Child Mortality in Stockholm, 1878 to 1925
Bo Burström, MD, PhD,
Gloria Macassa, MD,
Lisa Öberg, PhD,
Eva Bernhardt, PhD and
Lars Smedman, MD, PhD
Bo Burström and Gloria Macassa are with the the Centre of Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, and the Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Lisa Öberg is with the Centre of Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet and the Department of History, Södertörn University College, Huddinge, Sweden. Eva Bernhardt is with the Centre of Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. Lars Smedman is with the Centre of Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet.

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FIGURE 1— Overall mortality and diarrhea mortality among children aged younger than 2 years: Stockholm, 1878 to 1925.
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FIGURE 2— Diarrhea mortality rate in relation to daily average water consumption per person and cumulative number of new water pipe connections, Stockholm, 1878 to 1925.
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FIGURE 3— Diarrhea mortality rates among children aged younger than 2 years, by socioeconomic group (SEG), Stockholm, 1878 to 1925. Note. Groups are numbered in order of descending socioeconomic status.
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FIGURE 4— Overall mortality rates among children aged younger than 2 years, by socioeconomic group (SEG), Stockholm, 1878 to 1925. Note. Groups are numbered in order of descending socioeconomic status.
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