ABSTRACT
Sweden has 8.7 million inhabitants and one of the Western world’s highest proportion of female workers: 86% of women 15-64 years of age with children less than 10 years old had employment in 1988. It has 2.2 physicians per 1000 inhabitants, and in 1990, about 75% of all workers were covered by an occupational health program. e retirement age is 65 years of age, and in 1993, the unemployment rate was 8.8%. e Swedes have one of the world’s highest average life expectancies-78 years for women and 73 for men in 1992and the second lowest infant mortality rate in the world (second to Japan).
