ArticlePNAS nexus2022
The harmful effects of partisan polarization on health.
Article in PNAS nexus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Political polarization and health.Nature medicine · 2024Review
- Anxiety, depression, headaches - is political polarization bad for your health?Nature medicine · 2024Article
- County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Putting the affect into affective polarisation.Cognition & emotion · 2024Review
- RevisitingAmerican journal of public health · 2024Article
- Polarization and health-related behaviours and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review protocol.F1000Research · 2024Article
- Editorial: Digital tools for relaxation and stress management: use, effectiveness and implementation.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Reflective structured dialogue as a tool for addressing wicked public health problems.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Social capital's impact on COVID-19 outcomes at local levels.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Partisan polarization significantly drives stress and anxiety among Americans, and recent aggregate-level studies suggest polarization may be shaping their health. This individual-level study uses a new representative dataset of 2,752 US residents surveyed between December 2019 and January 2020, some US residents report more days of poor physical and mental health per month than others. Using negative binomial models, zero inflated models, and visualizations, we find evidence that polarization is linked to declines in physical health: the more distant an individual feels politically from the average voter in their state, the worse health outcomes he or she reports. By uncovering the individual-level political correlates of health, this study aims to encourage further study and attention to the broader consequences of political polarization on American communities.
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