ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2022
Partisan Control of U.S. State Governments: Politics as a Social Determinant of Infant Health.
Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Abortion policy, political control, and maternal and infant mortality in the United States: a cross-sectional ecological study.Reproductive health · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional analysis of county-level determinants of pandemic-era policy implementation.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Re-politicizing the WHO's social determinants of health framework.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Political Ideology Direction of Policy Agendas and Maternal Mortality Outcomes in the U.S., 1915-2007.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- Is fair representation good for children? effects of electoral partisan bias in state legislatures on policies affecting children's health and well-being.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Heterogeneity in Disparities in Life Expectancy Across US Metropolitan Areas.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- The Political Realignment of Health: How Partisan Power Shaped Infant Health in the United States, 1915-2017.Journal of health politics, policy and law · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionState policies and programs affect population health; yet, little is known about the connections between health and the political institutions and actors that prescribe and execute those policies and programs.
methodsThe 2-way fixed-effects regression models were fitted to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 1969-2014, to estimate logged infant mortality rate differentials between Republican- and non-Republican‒controlled state legislatures. These data were used in 2020 to hypothesize that net of trend, fluctuations in infant mortality rates-overall and by race-correlate with the party that controls state legislatures (the Lower House, the Upper House, and Congress).
resultsFindings show that state infant and postneonatal mortality rates are substantively higher under Republican-controlled state legislatures than under non-Republican‒controlled ones. The effect size is larger for postneonatal than for neonatal mortality. Findings suggest that effects may be greater for Black than for White infants, although the race-specific results are estimated imprecisely. The governor's party shows no substantive impacts on infant mortality rates net of party control of the Lower House.
conclusionsFindings support the proposition that the social determinants of health are constructed, at least in part, by the power vested in governments.
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