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The failed history of quarantines, and its implications for public health
Sabhlok, Sanjeev; Frijters, Paul; Foster, Gigi; … - 2024
This paper reviews the history of the practice of quarantines, rediscovering the 19th century 'Sanitarian' movement in Britain that sprang from a recognition that quarantines had failed to stop the spread of diseases and were not cost-effective. To our knowledge, the key figure among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580186
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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835260
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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality
Bose, Srimoyee - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024270
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Abortion laws and women's health
Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018
suggest that these impacts were also observed when considering maternal mortality, though effects are less precisely estimated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925432
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When do shelter-in-place orders fight COVID-19 best? : policy heterogeneity across states and adoption time
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207500
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Human resources for health and health outcomes : panel data analysis
Kureková, Lucie; Hejdukova, Pavlína; Komárková, Lenka - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 2, pp. 205-224
This study aims to evaluate the effects of selected key factors on health outcomes. Unfortunately, statistical reporting in this field is not harmonized, and in some countries it is completely absent. For this reason, valuable information for health determinant analysis may be lacking or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516195
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Renewable energy consumption and health outcomes : evidence from global panel data analysis
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Luni, Tania; Zaka, Gulreen - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 15 (2021) 1, pp. 58-93
expectancy and decreases the mortality rate. The positive relationship between clean energy and human health suggests that clean … energy helps to control chronic diseases thus leading to high life expectancy, low mortality, and fewer incidence of … tuberculosis. It is further concluded that economic growth, trade, and urbanization also produce better health outcomes. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507100
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Health, income, and the Preston Curve : a long view
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2022
Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per capita income. International trends of life expectancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170892
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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2000
This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158983
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How Did Schooling Laws Improve Long-Term Health and Lower Mortality?
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2007
large effects of education on mortality. We revisit these results, noting that the effects are not statistically different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054090