Health and Vulnerable Men. Sweden: From Traditional Farming to Industrialisation

n every society, there are different kinds of resources for good health. For instance, social capital matters – formed in networks by members of the local community and supported by concerned public and private institutions. Finding ways to understand these processes, which are the most vulnerable groups and why it happens is a major theme for the following narrative. An analysis of the relationship between health and social transitions during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century in Sweden must, due to the availability of sources, rely mostly on mortality figures and history has to be divided into three, partly artificial periods, making the social change visible: