Long-Run Health Matters

The health costs of 19th-century industrialization were enormous in England, and the Parliament could have done more to prevent them. More about this important topic below 👇

"Cheap borrowing saves lives" Read more in our latest article by Chapman (@Unibo) about how falling interest rates expedited Britain’s mortality decline! lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #Econhist #Publichealth

Lovell (@queensu): “Post-contact depopulation in the New World resulted from the introduction of epidemic diseases to which Indigenous peoples were defenseless.” Check the full article at: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #econhist #demography #colonialism #epidemics

Antman @CUBoulder: “High and low water quality parishes see a decline in deaths after the adoption of tea, and the decline in deaths is larger in lower water quality parishes”🫖 Read more at: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #PublicHealth #Tea #England #TeaAct

ICYMI: Did you know that seasonal changes had a significant impact on childhood mortality rates in the Netherlands? Learn more in our latest post by Ekamper, who uses new microdata on the mortality and background characteristics of children. #health lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea…

Did you know that seasonal changes had a significant impact on childhood mortality rates in the Netherlands from 1812-1912? Learn more in our latest post by Ekamper, who uses new microdata on the mortality and background characteristics of children. lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea…

Janssens: “The mortality decline is the most important processes in human history & a precondition for our modern post-industrial society.” visit: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #econhist  #demography #Amsterdam

Bolt et al. (@lunduniversity): “Our project uses new sources to study the introduction and long-term consequences of Western healthcare and education in Cameroon and Zambia.” visit: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #econhist  #Africa #education #Publichealth #education

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Fonseca Hoeltgebaum (@WUR, @RHI_WUR): 500,000 lives were lost during the 1877-1879 drought and famine in Northeast Brazil. Why? Read more: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #NaturalDisasters #Resilience #History

ICYMI: Mortality rates in Hermoupolis were much higher than the national Greek average Learn more about the patterns of mortality rates in the Greek urban centre of Hermoupolis in our latest post by Raftakis (@UniSassari) lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #Greece #Mortality #PublicHealth

Check this week's interesting post by @RaftakisM. He unveils with great detailed data the demographic transition in Greece, a country that barely features in historical health narratives.

Mortality rates in Hermoupolis were much higher than the national Greek average. Learn more about the patterns of mortality rates in the Greek urban centre of Hermoupolis in our latest post by Raftakis (@UniSassari). lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #Greece #Mortality #PublicHealth

2000 mill. people will be older than 60 by 2050 #aging has implications for care services provision, e.g. nursing homes Beatriz Rodríguez (@unicomplutense) shows how #diabetes impacts nursing home admission. Read more: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #health #elderly #PublicHealth

"Does economic growth improve people’s happiness and well-being?" Not really… To know why, visit: lrhmatters.com/wellbeing/the-… #EconomicGrowth #HappinessAndWellBeing #PublicHealth #Econhist

Fourie (@StellenboschUni) and Jayes (@lunduniversity) show that the influenza pandemic in 1918 exacerbated existing racial disparities in South Africa. For the full article visit lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #HealthInequity #InfluenzaImpact #PublicHealth

Worsening health leads to political polarization. Evidence from Hitler's political rise indicates Nazi vote shares were higher in places with higher mortality Check the piece by @GregoriGalofre & co-authors on this 👇👇👇 lrhmatters.com/consequences-o… #econhist #politics #mortality

The 1918 flu pandemic had a large economic impact in Spain. Basco et al. (@UniBarcelona) found that ‘The evolution GDP in 1918, represents a substantial deviation from the 1910-1930 trend’ Visit: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #HealthInequality #PandemicEffects

Franke (@unibt) explores the link between poverty, pollution & mortality during the 1918 influenza in Württemberg: mortality was higher in polluted areas. Visit: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #1918influenza #Pollution #Mortality

ICYMI: "The colonial medical campaigns still influence the health of communities they visited on an individual and communal level, through their negative consequences on vaccination rates and trust in modern medicine."💊 Visit: lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-hea… #PublicHealth #vaccination