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Title: A Rural Health Supplement to the Hookworm Intervention in the American South
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2018
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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18268.08328
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Abstract: This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to dramatic short- and long-term increases in human capital and labor productivity. Although useful from an identification standpoint, these single-shot interventions, in the absence of cooperative efforts to improve underlying conditions, have a mixed record of long-term effectiveness across public health research. The efficacy of deworming campaigns in particular has come under extensive scrutiny. The experience of the American South had stood as example of how a single-shot hookworm eradication program has improved outcomes; however, the robustness of this result has also recently come into question. A replication of the Bleakley (2007) seminal work investigating hookworm eradication finds faults with the robustness and interpretations of the results (Roodman 2017), and an investigation into the activities of the RSC has determined them unevenly distributed across hookworm-affected areas (Elman et. al 2013). Perhaps not coincidentally, the RSC’s hookworm eradication program was not the only public health intervention that occurred in the rural South during the Progressive Era. Rural public health centers spread throughout the American South . . .
Url: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325424703
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Authors: Fox, Jonathan F; Grigoriadis, Theocharis N
Series Title: School of Business & Economics Discussion Paper
Publication Number: 2018/5
Institution: Freie Universitat
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Publisher Location: Berlin
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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