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Fighting infectious disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Even more than in developing countries today, public health strategies to fight infectious disease in the past focused on the prevention of new infections by stopping their spread. These strategies were motivated by new insights into the causes of disease and the modes of transmission in the mid-nineteenth century. By combining longitudinal individual-level data on 17,000 children in a rural/semi-urban region in southern Sweden with local community data on public health investments, we explore the effects of the establishment of isolation hospitals and improved midwifery on mortality before age 15. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the establishment of isolation hospitals in the mid-1890s was successful in reducing child mortality, while increases in the number of qualified midwives after the 1900s led to a decrease in infant mortality. In both cases, rates fell by more than 50 percent.

Publiceringsår

2016-04-08

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

27-52

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Population and Development Review

Volym

42

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Economic History

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Defeating Disease: Lasting Effects of Public Health and Medical Breakthroughs between 1880 and 1945 on Health and Income in Sweden
  • Landskrona Population Study

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1728-4457