«How to have healthy children». Responses to the falling birth rate in Norway, c. 1900-1940
This paper focuses on initiatives to improve infant health, as they developed in Norway especially during the interwar period. Falling birth rates were felt as a menace to the survival of the nation and specific initiatives were taken to oppose it. But crises engendered by the reduction in fertility...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:40636 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/40636 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.4321/S0211-95362008000100007 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Salut maternoinfantil Consultoris de lactants Esterilització Salud maternoinfantil Consultorios de lactantes Esterilización Noruega Mother health Infant health Health stations Sterilization Norway |
| Sumario: | This paper focuses on initiatives to improve infant health, as they developed in Norway especially during the interwar period. Falling birth rates were felt as a menace to the survival of the nation and specific initiatives were taken to oppose it. But crises engendered by the reduction in fertility strengthened opportunities for introducing policies to help the fewer children born survive and grow up to become healthy citizens. Legislation supporting mothers started in 1892 increased in the interwar years including economic features. Healthy mother and baby stations and hygienic clinics, aimed at controlling births were developed by voluntary organisations inspired from France and England respectively. A sterilization law (1934) paralleled some German policies. |
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