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U.S. State Policy Contexts and Physical Health among Midlife Adults.
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- Variation in Black and White Life Expectancy Across State Policy Groups, 1990-2019: A Research Note.Demography · 2025Article
- Pre-COVID-19 Geographic Inequalities in Non-Hispanic Black US Life Expectancy, 1990 to 2019.Population and development review · 2025Article
- Double vulnerability? Examining the effect of living in nonmetropolitan areas within non-expansion Medicaid states on health status among working-age adults in the United States, 2022-2024.SSM - population health · 2025Article
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- Politicians, power, and the people's health: US elections and state health outcomes, 2012-2024.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- Re-politicizing the WHO's social determinants of health framework.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Anticipatory stress, state policy contexts, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- US State Policy Contexts and Population Health.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study examines how state policy contexts may have contributed to unfavorable adult health in recent decades. It merges individual-level data from the 1993-2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n=2,166,835) with 15 state-level policy domains measured annually on a conservative to liberal continuum. We examined associations between policy domains and health among adults ages 45-64 years and assess how much of the associations is accounted by adults' socioeconomic, behavioral/lifestyle, and family factors. A more liberal version of the civil rights domain was associated with better health. It was disproportionately important for less-educated adults and women, and its association with adult health was partly accounted by educational attainment, employment, and income. Environment, gun safety, and marijuana policy domains were, to a lesser degree, predictors of health in some model specifications. In sum, health improvements require a greater focus on macro-level factors that shape the conditions in which people live.
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