KOBAYASHI GENYA    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2018/01
Type	Academic Journal
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Public health improvements and mortality in interwar Tokyo: a Bayesian disease mapping approach
Contribution Type	Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal	Cliometrica
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume, Issue, Page	12(1),pp.1-31
Author and coauthor	Kota Ogasawara, Shinichiro Shirota, Genya Kobayashi
Details	Recent studies have found that modern water supply systems played an important role in mitigating the mortality risks in major US cities in the early twentieth century. Modern water supply systems were installed also in Japanese cities during the interwar period. This study examines how the modern water supply system in Tokyo City reduced mortality risks in the interwar period. By employing a Bayesian disease mapping approach with a block-level lattice dataset of Tokyo for 1930, we found that wider access to purified water through water supply systems played an important role in mitigating mortality risks during the study period. Our estimation results show that clean water accounted for approximately 41.3 and 34.9 % of improvements in crude and child death rates, respectively, between 1921 and 1937 in Tokyo.
DOI	10.1007/s11698-016-0148-3
ISSN	1863-2513