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Local Health Departments and the Puerto Rican Health …

WEBHowever, there is another Caribbean island that achieved an arguably more impressive health miracle during a similar stage of development: Puerto Rico. Between 1930 and 1960, life expectancy in …

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Industrialization, health and human welfare

WEBConcerning health, 19 th-century surveys on the social and environmental conditions of the poor highlighted the social costs of economic progress and the need for public action. The results of our …

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Research note: the rise of public health

WEBThis section argues that social movements advocating for public health increasingly gained power to influence local and national governments. This began when a number of prominent European …

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Epidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival: Research …

WEBEpidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival: Research Findings for Colonial Latin America. October 23, 2022. W. George Lovell. Show Author details. 16th century drawing of Aztec smallpox victim s. In …

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Socioeconomic Health Inequalities are a Matter of …

WEBHealth inequalities: from social justice to human rights. Given that socioeconomic health inequalities are generally considered to be unnecessary and avoidable, it is widely claimed that they lead to …

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Living in an Interwar World: Communicable Disease …

WEBAn international system emerged in the 1920s within the new League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO), the predecessor of the World Health Organization. The Versailles Treaty of 1919 did not …

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Urbanisation and disease: a perspective from …

WEBThe first of these is public health efforts, most notably in the promotion of vaccination against smallpox from c. 1800. Smallpox accounted for about 10 % of deaths in London in the mid-eighteenth …

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The Spanish hospital system during the Franco dictatorship

WEBThree factors lay behind this slowness. First, the extent of the dictatorship’s real interest in providing state-sponsored health insurance with sound and sufficient …

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Long-term institutionalized healthcare and education in Sub …

WEBAlthough this is widely recognized, access to education and healthcare continues to be far from equal between and within countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Does malnutrition cause disease

WEBMeasuring children’s health and nutritional status. To understand the children’s nutritional status, I use the heights and weights of the children recorded at …

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The virtual eradication of the plague. An unsolved riddle of health

WEBAn unsolved riddle of health progress. March 27, 2022. Boris V. Schmid. Show Author details. Painting by Michel Serre depicting how plague wreaked havoc in …

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The industrial revolution and the origins of modern sanitation

WEBThe industrial revolution increased the need for water and sanitation services. As previously mentioned, industrialization was accompanied, and fueled, by …

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The modernization of health in the Netherlands, 1854-1940

WEBLifting the burden of disease. The modernization of health in the Netherlands, 1854-1940. October 17, 2021. Angélique Janssens. Show Author details. …

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Poverty, Pollution, and Mortality: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in a

WEBPoverty, Pollution, and Mortality: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in a Developing German Economy. September 25, 2022. Richard Franke. Show Author …

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Medical progress and health inequality: penicillin in Italy

WEBTechnological progress in public health and medicine has been described as one of the main drivers behind the general increase in life expectancy since World …

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Long run differences in mortality rates between Indigenous and …

WEBShanahan, M.P. 2022, “Long run differences in mortality rates between Indigenous and white Australians 1788-2000” paper given at the. Institutions, colonialism …

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Research note: Mental health in Germany ca. 1900

WEBThe emotional aspect of individuals’ health became more prominent in 1900. To illustrate this, this post focuses on Germany that was a leading country in …

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Colonialism, forced labor and mortality in Java

WEBOver the long-run, our calculations show that the abolishment of this system of exploitation by the late 19 th century resulted in higher health levels. We estimate that …

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