Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health: Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election

ISBN-13: 9780367727987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Deborah Wallace; Rodrick Wallace

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Deborah Wallace is an ecologist who pioneered the transfer of ecosystem analytical approaches to social epidemiology and health inequality.

Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is well-known for modeling cognitive processes ranging from cellular-level immunity up to national economies and to decision-making in large institutions.