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Medical progress and health inequality: penicillin in Italy
This post argues that the introduction of penicillin in post-war Italy led to lower levels of regional health inequality.
Tea Drinking Curbed Mortality Rates in England
The introduction of tea in 18th century England resulted in an increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates.
Socioeconomic Health Inequalities are a Matter of Human Rights
Human rights are an authoritative moral and legal framework that can be used by governments to reduce socioeconomic health inequalities
Missing Women in Colonial India
This post presents patterns of missing women in Colonial India. Male-biased sex ratios emerge most visibly after age 10.
Epidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival: Research Findings for Colonial Latin America
Post-contact depopulation in the New World resulted from the introduction of epidemic diseases to which Indigenous peoples were defenceless.
Living in an Interwar World: Communicable Disease and Epidemic Information
This article traces the origins of the current system of global health information and the foundations of current communications problems.
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Pierre Lack (ex @LSEnews) examines trends in subjective well-being in UK men between 1800 and 1900.
Emotional wellbeing, as indicated by language used in pamphlets, was stagnant despite GDP growth, supporting the Easterlin Paradox
#happiness #wellbeing
https://lrhmatters.com/wellbeing/the-trend-of-emotional-well-being-in-nineteenth-century-britain
ICYMI: The introduction of #penicillin led to rapid health convergence in Italy
Check this post based on research by @MarcellaAlsan,
@vincenzo_atella, @DrJBhattacharya and others.
Highly recommended!
#demography #economics
https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/medical-progress-and-health-inequality-penicillin-in-italy
Penicillin, 'the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease', was introduced in Italy ca. 1947
How did it influence #health #inequality?
Miller (@Stanford) and colleagues answer this at @LRHealthMatters. A short đ§”(1/9)
#demography #economics
https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/medical-progress-and-health-inequality-penicillin-in-italy
How do medical technologies influence #health #inequality?
Grant Miller (@Stanford) and colleagues answer this question by considering the introduction of penicillin in Italy after the Second World War.
Recommended!
#demography #economics
https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/medical-progress-and-health-inequality-penicillin-in-italy
The Decline in Transformative Science
This trend has been partly reflected in the transition towards ânano economicsâ -- the thorough investigation of narrow research questions whose results are self-evident at the outset or inconsequential.
https://tinyurl.com/5t5fshk7
