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Jonas Helgertz

Vice Dean Research, Associate Professor

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Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality

Author

  • Bernard Harris
  • Jonas Helgertz

Summary, in English

This paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban mortality. The special issue contains papers which focus on the impact of sanitary reforms on mortality change in Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and England and Wales. The current paper outlines the main features of the debate over the causes of mortality change and the role played by sanitary reforms in this. It then highlights some of the methodological and other challenges posed by the definition of ‘urban’ areas, the identification of relevant sanitary reforms, and the choice of dependent variables. The paper then proceeds to summarise the main features of the individual papers before drawing some conclusions for future research.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2019-04-03

Language

English

Pages

207-226

Publication/Series

History of the Family

Volume

24

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article (comment)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • History

Keywords

  • mortality
  • public health
  • Sanitation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1081-602X