Investment in water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eradicate typhoid fever and …

describe regional patterns in the decline of urban infectious mortality from 1900 to 1948. We report three main results: First …, urban infectious mortality was higher in the South in every year from 1900 to 1948. Second, infectious mortality declined … later in southern cities than in cities in the other regions. Third, comparatively high infectious mortality in southern …

response and mortality outcomes should be better than in 1918-20. We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any … predictive content for mortality in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We find a strong persistence in public health performance in … the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Places that performed poorly in terms of mortality in 1918 were more likely to …

that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of … hypothesis that the ratio of current mortality to lagged infections is decreasing in the total number of vaccines per one hundred … conclusion from the statistical analysis is that, passed a certain threshold, vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a …

This paper studies the immediate and long-run mortality effects of the first community-based health intervention in the … historical narrative suggest that the demonstration was highly successful in controlling tuberculosis and reducing mortality … tuberculosis mortality, all-age mortality, nor infant mortality. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate on whether public …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated …