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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful?

Published:2019-04-01 Issue:2 Volume:11 Page:143-175
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Anderson D. Mark¹,Charles Kerwin Kofi²,Olivares Claudio Las Heras³,Rees Daniel I.⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172920, Bozeman, MT 59717, IZA, and NBER (email: )

2. Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, IZA, and NBER (email: )

3. Banco de Chile, Agustinas 975, Office 301, Santiago, Chile 8320203 (email: )

4. Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 181, Denver, CO 80217, and IZA (email: )

Abstract

The US tuberculosis (TB) movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Using newly transcribed mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900–1917, we explore the effectiveness of public health measures championed by the TB movement, including the establishment of sanatoriums and open-air camps, prohibitions on public spitting and common cups, and requirements that local health officials be notified about TB cases. Our results suggest that these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at most, only a small portion of the overall decline in pulmonary TB mortality observed during the period under study. (JEL H51, I12, I18, N31, N32)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.20170411

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