Long-Run Health Matters

Research summaries by leading experts on the drivers and consequences of long-run health developments.

[Daniel Gallardo @DanielGalAlb]

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 👇

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

"Cheap borrowing saves lives"

Read more in our latest article by Chapman (@Unibo) about how falling interest rates expedited Britain’s mortality decline!

https://t.co/qURi8KE2C6

#Econhist #Publichealth

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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: https://t.co/9AIAVfVN2h

#econhist #demography #colonialism #epidemics

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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: https://t.co/sGVyjAzz1Y

#PublicHealth #Tea #England #TeaAct

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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
https://t.co/U8ACxDsV1G

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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.

https://t.co/U8ACxDsV1G

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

Janssens: “The mortality decline is the most important processes in human history & a precondition for our modern post-industrial society.”

visit: https://t.co/v3AM0iOROS

#econhist  #demography #Amsterdam

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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: https://t.co/PV3dI4t12n

#econhist  #Africa #education #Publichealth #education

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

👉 Are you curious about how historical events and policies shape #health outcomes today?

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https://t.co/0KIxRa6gC6

#economics #demography #history

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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: https://t.co/swbmJoAJLV

#NaturalDisasters #Resilience #History

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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)

https://t.co/bffPX4rnHw
#Greece #Mortality #PublicHealth

[Daniel Gallardo @DanielGalAlb]

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.

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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).

https://t.co/bffPX4rnHw

#Greece #Mortality #PublicHealth

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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: https://t.co/VnhJ1cOfjq

#health #elderly #PublicHealth

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

"Does economic growth improve people’s happiness and well-being?"

Not really…

To know why, visit: https://t.co/mY699NA2uW

#EconomicGrowth #HappinessAndWellBeing #PublicHealth #Econhist

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

Fourie (@StellenboschUni) and Jayes (@lunduniversity) show that the influenza pandemic in 1918 exacerbated existing racial disparities in South Africa.

For the full article visit https://t.co/fkFahv82xO

#HealthInequity #InfluenzaImpact #PublicHealth

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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 👇👇👇

https://t.co/O16SEOwrlQ

#econhist #politics #mortality

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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: https://t.co/pN0mMWteMg

#HealthInequality #PandemicEffects

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

Franke (@unibt) explores the link between poverty, pollution & mortality during the 1918 influenza in Württemberg: mortality was higher in polluted areas.

Visit: https://t.co/DiJJDuwIrJ

#1918influenza #Pollution #Mortality

[Long-Run Health Matters @LRHealthMatters]

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: https://t.co/YgU7bj5pQL

#PublicHealth #vaccination