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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621424
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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494792
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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634649
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Was the first public health campaign successful?
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 11 (2019) 2, pp. 143-175
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002510
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271478
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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality
Anderson, D. Mark - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960508
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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality
Anderson, D. Mark - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961293
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A model of economic activity in San Francisco during the 1918 influenza epidemic
Velde, François R. - 2022
I jointly use daily data on deaths and public transportation ridership in San Francisco in 1918-19 to estimate a model in which agents choose their level of economic activity based on perceived infection risk, modeled as a function of current and lagged infections or deaths. Agents' choices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819359
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COVID-19 and the gendered markets of people and products : explaining inequalities in infections and deaths
Hawkes, Sarah; Buse, Kent - In: Canadian journal of development studies 42 (2021) 1/2, pp. 37-54
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513736
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The role of economic structural factors in determining pandemic mortality rates : evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in France
Goutte, Stéphane; Péran, Thomas; Porcher, Thomas - In: Research in international business and finance 54 (2020), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581529