Elections have Consequences: Partisan Politics may be Literally Killing Us.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Presidential campaigns and election outcomes have significant health implications for voters and communities. The theoretical underpinning of this relationship is multifaceted, but a new and growing field of empirical literature strongly suggests communities that voted for the losing presidential candidate may experience decreased physical and mental health under the leadership of the winning candidate.

Objective

Our objective was to estimate the relationship between mortality rates and community support for the losing presidential candidate (partisan loss).

Methods

Mortality data compiled by the US Centers for Disease Control and election results at the county level were used across a suite of county-year fixed-effects models to estimate the effect of elec

SUBMITTER: Maas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746427 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature