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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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cities themselves was markedly unequal. Second, I review research looking at the mortality impact of access to clean water … and sanitation. These account for ca. 10-30 percent of declines in infant mortality and in industrial settings their joint … effect explains between 20 and 25 percent of the fall in infant and overall mortality. Lastly, I examine the drivers of the …
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What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...
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cities themselves was markedly unequal. Second, I review research looking at the mortality impact of access to clean water … and sanitation. These account for ca. 10-30 percent of declines in infant mortality and in industrial settings their joint … effect explains between 20 and 25 percent of the fall in infant and overall mortality. Lastly, I examine the drivers of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551677
What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446308
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...
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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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This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in … with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality …
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