We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico … in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates …

cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …

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 …

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 …

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