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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w15089 |
来源ID | Working Paper 15089 |
Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs | |
Seema Jayachandran; Adriana Lleras-Muney; Kimberly V. Smith | |
发表日期 | 2009-06-18 |
出版年 | 2009 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper studies the contribution of sulfa drugs, a groundbreaking medical innovation in the 1930s, to declines in U.S. mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs represented the first effective treatment. Using time-series and difference-in-differences methods (with diseases unaffected by sulfa drugs as a comparison group), we find that sulfa drugs led to a 25 to 40 percent decline in maternal mortality, 17 to 36 percent decline in pneumonia mortality, and 52 to 67 percent decline in scarlet-fever mortality between 1937 and 1943. Altogether, they reduced mortality by 2 to 4 percent and increased life expectancy by 0.4 to 0.8 years. We also find that sulfa drugs benefited whites more than blacks. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15089 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572764 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Seema Jayachandran,Adriana Lleras-Muney,Kimberly V. Smith. Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs. 2009. |
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