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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to …. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) movement has not been studied in a … systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to …. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) movement has not been studied in a … systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the …
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: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
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We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years … following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals … the improvement in welfare due to mortality responses may offset the entire net-of-transfers expenditure associated with …
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One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
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, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated …
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discontinuity design to measure within-regional heart attack mortality spanning 1968 to 1982. I estimate that the introduction of …
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-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …
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This paper adds some formal research to the success of ongoing efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US states and place the formal analysis in the context...
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One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221796