Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health : Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
Wallace, Deborah.
Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health : Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (154 pages) - Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Series . - Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I The context -- 1 What we learned from the right-to-work study -- 2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 3 Life and death in America -- Part II The findings -- 4 Mortality rates of infants and children under age 15 -- 4.1 Infant mortality -- 4.2 Deaths of children 1-4 years old per 100,000 -- 4.3 Deaths of children 5-9 and 10-14 years of age -- 4.4 Excess years of life lost in Trump states -- 5 Vital blood vessels: mortality rates from coronary heart and from cerebrovascular disease -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coronary heart mortality rates below age 75 -- 5.3 Cerebrovascular mortality rates -- 6 Obesity and diabetes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Adult obesity prevalence in 2015: comparison of Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 6.3 Diabetes mortality rates -- 6.4 Obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease -- 7 Risk behaviors -- 7.1 Eating your veggies and fruit -- 7.2 Vehicle fatality incidence 2015 -- 7.3 Cigarettes and alcohol -- 7.4 Unsafe sex: births to teenagers and gonorrhea -- 7.5 Homicide -- 7.6 Index of risk behavior -- 7.7 Why risk behaviors? -- 8 Alzheimer's disease and state voting patterns -- 9 Roots of health patterns of Trump- and Clinton-voting states -- Part III Power and inequality -- 10 The collapse of countervailing force -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The control of inherent instability -- 10.3 Failure of control I -- 10.4 Failure of control II -- 10.5 Discussion and conclusions -- 11 Pentagon capitalism: the Cold War and US deindustrialization -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Ratchet dynamics I -- 11.3 Ratchet dynamics II -- 11.4 Ratchet dynamics III -- 11.5 Ratchet dynamics IV -- 11.6 Failure of efficiency in economic enterprise -- 11.7 The hysteresis of industrial collapse. 11.8 Discussion and conclusions -- 12 Countervailing forces and their geographic ebbing: public health changes -- 13 References -- 14 Data sets and their sources -- 14.1 Economic -- 14.2 Demographic -- 14.3 Education/social -- 14.4 Political engagement -- 14.5 Life expectancy and death rates -- 14.6 Obesity and diabetes prevalence -- 14.7 Other risk behaviors -- Index.
The authors examine previously observed concepts of early aging and death, such as socioecomic stresses and health inequalities, to state-level populations and survey in detail the grinding pressures of steep economic, social, and political hierarchy on hundreds of millions of people.
9781000005264
Medical care-Political aspects-United States.
Public health-Political aspects-United States.
Health status indicators-United States.
Electronic books.
RA395.A3 .W355 2019
362.10973
Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health : Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (154 pages) - Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Series . - Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I The context -- 1 What we learned from the right-to-work study -- 2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 3 Life and death in America -- Part II The findings -- 4 Mortality rates of infants and children under age 15 -- 4.1 Infant mortality -- 4.2 Deaths of children 1-4 years old per 100,000 -- 4.3 Deaths of children 5-9 and 10-14 years of age -- 4.4 Excess years of life lost in Trump states -- 5 Vital blood vessels: mortality rates from coronary heart and from cerebrovascular disease -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coronary heart mortality rates below age 75 -- 5.3 Cerebrovascular mortality rates -- 6 Obesity and diabetes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Adult obesity prevalence in 2015: comparison of Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 6.3 Diabetes mortality rates -- 6.4 Obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease -- 7 Risk behaviors -- 7.1 Eating your veggies and fruit -- 7.2 Vehicle fatality incidence 2015 -- 7.3 Cigarettes and alcohol -- 7.4 Unsafe sex: births to teenagers and gonorrhea -- 7.5 Homicide -- 7.6 Index of risk behavior -- 7.7 Why risk behaviors? -- 8 Alzheimer's disease and state voting patterns -- 9 Roots of health patterns of Trump- and Clinton-voting states -- Part III Power and inequality -- 10 The collapse of countervailing force -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The control of inherent instability -- 10.3 Failure of control I -- 10.4 Failure of control II -- 10.5 Discussion and conclusions -- 11 Pentagon capitalism: the Cold War and US deindustrialization -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Ratchet dynamics I -- 11.3 Ratchet dynamics II -- 11.4 Ratchet dynamics III -- 11.5 Ratchet dynamics IV -- 11.6 Failure of efficiency in economic enterprise -- 11.7 The hysteresis of industrial collapse. 11.8 Discussion and conclusions -- 12 Countervailing forces and their geographic ebbing: public health changes -- 13 References -- 14 Data sets and their sources -- 14.1 Economic -- 14.2 Demographic -- 14.3 Education/social -- 14.4 Political engagement -- 14.5 Life expectancy and death rates -- 14.6 Obesity and diabetes prevalence -- 14.7 Other risk behaviors -- Index.
The authors examine previously observed concepts of early aging and death, such as socioecomic stresses and health inequalities, to state-level populations and survey in detail the grinding pressures of steep economic, social, and political hierarchy on hundreds of millions of people.
9781000005264
Medical care-Political aspects-United States.
Public health-Political aspects-United States.
Health status indicators-United States.
Electronic books.
RA395.A3 .W355 2019
362.10973