Abstract
Abstract The eradication of endemic malaria in Sardinia is evaluated for its demographic and socioeconomic impact in an examination of the relationship between disease control, population growth, and economic development. Pre‐eradication public health literature had argued that malaria was a sufficient cause of underdevelopment, Unking disease, labor shortages, and agricultural inefficiency in a pattern of involution. In Sardinia, population growth was a desired effect of disease control. A cultural ecological model labeled the “Malaria Blocks Development” hypothesis is used to generate specific questions about the effects of malaria eradication. Demographic analysis reveals that malaria control causes a substantial decrease in overall mortality rates, much greater than the simple elimination of malaria‐specific deaths. The geographical distribution of population growth does not follow the predicted pattern. Historical analysis of economic change in a particular ex‐malarial community and of regional econo...
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