Thursday, April 1 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Beacon B

Session 58:
Population, Environment, and Health

Chair: Joshua A. Mott, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Discussant: Lawrence A. Brown, Ohio State University

  1. Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations • Tara Watson, Princeton University

  2. Access to Safe Drinking Water: Effects on Health and Time Management in Andhra Pradesh, India • Garimella Rama Rao, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Garimella Rohini Devi, SK Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce ; M.N.V. Prasad, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

  3. The Effects of 'Improvements' in the Water Supply on the Mortality of Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century • Gretchen A. Condran, Temple University ; Rose Cheney, University of Pennsylvania ; Harold Lentzner, Independent Researcher

  4. The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20th Century United States • David Cutler, Harvard University ; Grant Miller, Harvard University

Other sessions on Health and Mortality