Modern states deeply care about public #health.

However, this was not always the case: when did it change and why?

@DanielGalAlb and Arwen Scheppers (student at @WageningenUR) discuss the role of #science and social movements.

#history #healthequity

https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/research-note-the-rise-of-public-health

The 1918 #influenza #pandemic was one of the deadliest events in history, killing an estimated 50 million people.

But how did it affect #Germany, a country that was already devastated by World War I? 🤔

Richard Franke (@unibt ) answers this 👇 (1/4)

https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/poverty-pollution-mortality-during-the-1918-influenza-in-germany

ICYMI: our latest #newsletter is out!

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#economics #demography #history

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How did two epidemics shape global health governance in the 1920s?

Learn how the predecessor of the @WHO was born out of crisis from a post by @HeidiTworek (@UBC).

#interwarhealth #epidemichistory

https://lrhmatters.com/drivers-of-health/living-in-an-interwar-world-communicable-disease-and-epidemic-information