The Biggest Public Health Experiment Ever

Meier, P. (1972). The Biggest Public Health Experiment Ever: The 1954 Field Trial of the Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine. Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1972

Link

https://archive.org/details/statisticsguidet00tanu

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Internal validity
  • In the "observed control" areas, second-graders were offered the vaccine and compared with unvaccinated first- and third-graders — but because vaccination was voluntary, the vaccinated group self-selected: consent skewed toward better-educated, higher-income families, and paralytic polio incidence genuinely rose with socioeconomic status, because better sanitation delays a child's first exposure past the months in which maternal antibodies still protect

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