@inbook{516def3eb7904900b35b3dacf37b97ef,
title = "Health, Disease, and Sanitation in American Economic History",
author = "Hoyt Bleakley and Cain, \{Louis P.\} and Hong, \{Sok Chul\}",
note = "Long-run changes in public health and well-being have been remarkable; Americans are living healthier, longer, and more productive lives. This chapter begins with a consideration of health trends over the past three hundred years. The shift from the miasmatic to the germ theory of disease ushered in a period of significant improvement.",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190882617.013.1",
language = "American English",
booktitle = "Oxford Handbook of American Economic History",
}