Replication data for: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful?
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) D. Mark Anderson; Kerwin Kofi Charles; Claudio Las Heras Olivares; Daniel I. Rees
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Project Citation:
Anderson, D. Mark, Charles, Kerwin Kofi, Olivares, Claudio Las Heras, and Rees, Daniel I. Replication data for: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113729V1
Project Description
Summary:
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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.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Public Health;
Infectious Diseases
JEL Classification:
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H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I12 Health Behavior
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I12 Health Behavior
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1900 – 1917
Data Type(s):
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census/enumeration data;
aggregate data
Methodology
Data Source:
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Annual volumes of Mortality Statistics, published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Unit(s) of Observation:
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City,
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