systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …

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 …

find that news reports were positively associated with government announced typhoid mortality counts and the size of this …

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 …

? They have not. We ask when and why the female advantage emerged. We show that reductions in maternal mortality and …

curtailing overall mortality because the average duration of each type of NPI was only around one month. Another possibility is …