| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25884 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25884 |
| Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment | |
| Karen Clay; Peter Juul Egedesø; Casper Worm Hansen; Peter Sandholt Jensen; Avery Calkins | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-05-27 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the immediate and long-run mortality effects of the first community-based health intervention in the world – the Framingham Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration, 1917-1923. The official evaluation committee and the historical narrative suggest that the demonstration was highly successful in controlling tuberculosis and reducing mortality. Using newly digitized annual cause-of-death data for municipalities in Massachusetts, 1901-1934, and different empirical strategies, we find little evidence to support this positive assessment. In fact, we find that the demonstration did not reduce tuberculosis mortality, all-age mortality, nor infant mortality. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate on whether public-health interventions mattered for the decline in (tuberculosis) mortality prior to modern medicine. At a more fundamental level, our study questions this particular type of community-based setup with non-random treatment assignment as a method of evaluating policy interventions. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25884 |
| 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/583557 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karen Clay,Peter Juul Egedesø,Casper Worm Hansen,et al. Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment. 2019. |
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| w25884.pdf（689KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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