| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25689 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25689 |
| The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and its Waning, 1910-1930 | |
| D. Mark Anderson; Daniel I. Rees; Tianyi Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-03-25 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this phenomenon, the consensus view is that it was eventually controlled through public health efforts at the municipal level. Using data from 26 major American cities for the period 1910-1930, we document the phenomenon of summer diarrhea and explore its dissipation. We find that water filtration is associated with a 15-17 percent reduction in diarrheal mortality among children under the age of two during the non-summer months, but does not seem to have had an effect on diarrheal mortality during the summer. In general, we find little evidence to suggest that public health interventions undertaken at the municipal level contributed to the dissipation of summer diarrhea. Our results are relevant for many parts of the developing world today, where climate change is expected to affect the length and intensity of seasons as well as the incidence of diarrheal diseases. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25689 |
| 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/583362 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | D. Mark Anderson,Daniel I. Rees,Tianyi Wang. The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and its Waning, 1910-1930. 2019. |
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