Was the first public health campaign successful?

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Abstract

The US tuberculosis (TB) movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Using newly transcribed mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the effectiveness of public health measures championed by the TB movement, including the establishment of sanatoriums and open-air camps, prohibitions on public spitting and common cups, and requirements that local health officials be notified about TB cases. Our results suggest that these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at most, only a small portion of the overall decline in pulmonary TB mortality observed during the period under study.

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Anderson, D. M., Charles, K. K., Olivares, C. L. H., & Rees, D. I. (2019). Was the first public health campaign successful? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), 143–175. https://doi.org/10.1257/APP.20170411

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