ReviewNature medicine2024
Political polarization and health.
Review in Nature medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Science advances · 2025Pooled it
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- Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
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- Clarifying dissemination outcomes: a taxonomy to advance dissemination science.Implementation science : IS · 2026Article
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- Public preferences for reducing health inequality in the US: a national survey.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- The biological burden of conflict across populations worldwide.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Article
- Political ideology, sociodemographic factors, and social media health information engagement among U.S. adults: evidence from HINTS 2024.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Toward an integrative psychological framework of existential hope: navigating uncertain futures.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Brief Report: State Policy Contexts and Disability Risks Among Midlife Working-Age Latino Adults in the U.S.: Variation by Nativity and Citizenship Status.Population research and policy review · 2026Article
- "At the mercy of the State": Transgender and nonbinary young adults' experiences navigating restrictive healthcare legislation.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Enhancing curiosity with a wise intervention to improve political conversations and relationships.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association between census-tract Social Vulnerability Index and preterm birth rates.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries.Nature aging · 2025Article
- The exposome of healthy and accelerated aging across 40 countries.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- A field test of empathetic refutational and motivational interviewing to address vaccine hesitancy among patients.NPJ vaccines · 2025Article
- Measurement, Characterization, and Mapping of COVID-19 Misinformation in Spain: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
In addition to social determinants of health, such as economic resources, education, access to care and various environmental factors, there is growing evidence that political polarization poses a substantial risk to individual and collective well-being. Here we review the impact of political polarization on public health. We describe the different forms of polarization and how they are connected to health outcomes, highlighting the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study of the health risks of polarization. We then offer strategies for mitigating potential harms associated with polarization, with an emphasis on building social trust. Finally, we propose future research directions on this topic, underscore the need for more work in a global context and encourage greater collaboration between social scientists and medical scientists. We conclude that polarization is a serious-if largely overlooked-determinant of health, whose impacts must be more thoroughly understood and mitigated.
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