Lessons from the past in the present: news from the Spanish flu pandemic to COVID-19
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021 Objective: to analyze the health conducts for combating the Spanish flu and its relationship with the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro. Methods: study from the perspective of microhistory, with analysis of articles published in Revista da Semana on ...
Mercedes Neto +6 more
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Urban Dealing with Pandemic: Comparative Responses on Spanish Flu and the Covid-19 Era in Indonesia
IHiS (Indonesian Historical Studies), 2022 This article compares how the Indonesian, specifically the urban people respond to the pandemic during the history. In 1918, Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies, witnessed a pandemic of the Spanish Flu that killed thousands of lives.
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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2022 The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was widely regarded as the deadliest in modern history, claiming more lives than World War I. Colonial Indonesia was not spared.
Ravando Ravando
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The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 1918
Demographic Research, 2022 Background: The gravity of the Spanish flu has been often associated with inadequate health systems. However, few studies have used health data effectively in their analysis of epidemics.
Matteo Manfredini
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Comparative study of pandemics and their impact on children and adolescents: COVID-19 and Spanish Flu. [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Overview Pandemics are characterized by an abrupt and sudden outburst and absence of preparation for its management. The focus during pandemics is on the medical aspect of the disease and not on its impact on the citizens' or vulnerable groups ...
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The impact of pandemics on labour organization: insights from an Italian company archive during the Spanish Flu. [PDF]
Lett Spat Resour Sci, 2023 In this paper, we discuss the classical modelling approach of pandemics as a negative labour shock. We perform an archival analysis of one of the largest Italian banks (Credito Italiano) during the First World War – Spanish Flu period (1914–1920).
Berbenni E, Colombo S.
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Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu. [PDF]
Health Econ, 2021 Recent studies argue that major crises can have long‐lasting effects on individual behavior. While most studies focused on natural disasters, we explore the consequences of the global pandemic caused by a lethal influenza virus in 1918–19: the so‐called “
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Centenarians exposed to the Spanish flu in their early life better survived to COVID-19. [PDF]
Aging (Albany NY), 2021 Background: Although it is known that mortality due to COVID-19 increases progressively with age, the probability of dying from this serious infection among the oldest-old population is little known, and controversial data are found in literature ...
Poulain M, Chambre D, Pes GM.
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"Spanish flu," encephalitis lethargica, and COVID-19: Progress made, lessons learned, and directions for future research. [PDF]
Eur J NeurolOne hundred years ago, an influenza pandemic swept across the globe that coincided with the development of a neurological condition, named "encephalitis lethargica" for the occurrence of its main symptom, the sudden onset of sleepiness that either ...
Brainin M, Teuschl Y, Gelpi E.
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Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands. [PDF]
Econ Hum Biol, 2022 Rijpma A +4 more
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