Poor Sanitation, Deaths, and Regional Inequality in Twentieth-Century Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3418841 |
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| Authors | Manuel Llorca‐jaña (0000-0002-3937-6035, Gobierno de Chile), Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Javier Rivas (0000-0002-9327-9906), Javier Rivas Rodríguez (0000-0003-4385-6979, Gobierno de Chile), Daniel Morales-Campos, Daniel Morales‐Campos (0000-0002-5581-8542, Gobierno de Chile) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-207 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_02037 |
| OpenAlex | W4406791811 |
| Language | EN |
Although Chile experienced a rapid epidemiological transition, high mortality linked to waterborne diseases persisted. The prevention of gastrointestinal illnesses was expensive, so mortality rates varied across geographical areas. The public expenditure on sanitation was insufficient and distributed unevenly across Chile. Before the late 1960s, the probability of dying from diarrhea could be up to twelve times higher in rural areas than in urban regions, which were better equipped with sanitation infrastructure
Development economics · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Sanitation · Socioeconomics · Environmental Engineering · Environmental Science · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · Mathematics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Highly cited | No |
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