Drivers of health Archives - Long-Run Health Matters

May 15, 2022 May 15, 2022

The drivers of institutionalization among the elderly in Europe

Will future increases in life expectancy improve life quality? If we consider the elderly, this is unclear, especially among permanently institutionalized individuals, whose quality of life is often worse.

Beatriz Rodríguez Sánchez – May 15, 2022

April 24, 2022 April 24, 2022

A Micro-Based Evaluation of Water Projects

We demonstrate the potential of using existing micro-level data to credibly assess the impact of improved water provision on the household’s welfare.

Raymond Boadi Frempong & David Stadelmann – April 24, 2022

April 10, 2022 April 10, 2022

The Spanish hospital system during the Franco dictatorship

The creation of the Spanish public hospital system during Franco’s dictatorship was marked by collaboration and competition with the private sector, due to limited funding and political struggles among elites.

Jerònia Pons-Pons & Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez – April 10, 2022

March 27, 2022 March 27, 2022

The virtual eradication of the plague. An unsolved riddle of health progress

Both plague and smallpox used to exert a heavy death toll on society. We eradicated smallpox with a vaccine, but plague disappeared from most of human society for unknown reasons.

Boris V. Schmid – March 27, 2022

March 13, 2022 March 20, 2022

Sex ratios and missing girls in historical Europe

Discriminatory practices against girls reduced their survival chances during the 19th century and early 20th century, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe.

Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia – March 13, 2022

January 17, 2022 January 17, 2022

The unequal impact of the Spanish flu in South Africa

Using a novel measure of healthcare inequality, this research shows that the 1918 Influenza epidemic in South Africa exacerbated existing large racial inequalities in access to institutionalized medical treatment.

Johan Fourie & Jonathan Jayes – January 17, 2022

December 20, 2021 January 8, 2022

Colonialism, forced labor and mortality in Java

The Dutch Cultivation System in nineteenth-century Java used forced labor to cultivate cash crops. This contribution argues that this colonial institution had important negative effects on the local peasantry’s health.

Pim de Zwart & colleagues – December 20, 2021

October 17, 2021 January 8, 2022

The historical roots of institutionalized healthcare and education in Sub-Saharan Africa, the cases of Cameroon and Zambia

Using newly collected evidence for colonial Zambia and Cameroon, we show how strong and lasting the effects of historical investments in education and healthcare are in explaining contemporary outcomes.

Jutta Bolt & colleagues – October 17, 2021

October 17, 2021 January 8, 2022

Lifting the burden of disease. The modernization of health in the Netherlands, 1854-1940

This contribution presents an innovative research project, titled Lifting the burden of disease, based on the individual level cause-of-death data for the city of Amsterdam between 1854 and 1940. These data create a unique historical laboratory in which we can study epidemiological change and its determinants.

Angélique Janssens – October 17, 2021

October 17, 2021 January 8, 2022

Urbanisation and disease: a perspective from nineteenth-century Britain

Does rapid urbanization cause rising mortality and worsening sanitation? Nineteenth-century Britain is often used as the classic exemplar of this problem, however we find little evidence that mortality rose in English cities during the Industrial Revolution.

Romola Davenport – October 17, 2021