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De epidemiologische transitie in Amsterdam

The Epidemiological Transition in Amsterdam: Disease, Death, and Social Inequality in a Changing City (1850–1940)

This study examines the epidemiological transition in Amsterdam between 1850 and 1940, highlighting a shift from high mortality due to infectious diseases to lower mortality dominated by chronic conditions. By combining quantitative mortality data with qualitative family histories, it reveals how structural transformations in health and longevity intersected with unequal living conditions and personal lived experiences of disease and death. It underscores the importance of integrating macro-level trends and micro-level narratives to understand how medical progress and public health improvements were unevenly distributed and how changing patterns of illness and mortality reshaped daily life in Amsterdam.