Studies from University of Iowa in the Area of Political Science Described (The Policy Consequences of Health Bias in Political Voice)

2019 SEP 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Science - Political Science. According to news reporting from Iowa City, United States, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Although research on the link between health and political behavior at the individual level has flourished, there have been no systematic analyses regarding the policy consequences of health inequalities in political voice.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Iowa, “Using a unique dataset that measures the health bias in voter turnout across the fifty states from 1996 to 2012, I find that state electorates that are disproportionately more representative of healthy citizens spend less on health and have less generous Medicaid programs. The negative relationship between the degree of health bias in state electorates and these outcomes remain after controlling for the degree of class bias in voter turnout.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These findings have important implications for democratic theory and policy responsiveness, as well as our understanding of variations in population health and health policy across the American states.”

For more information on this research see: The Policy Consequences of Health Bias in Political Voice. Political Research Quarterly, 2019;():106591291985943. Political Research Quarterly can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Political Research Quarterly - prq.sagepub.com)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Pacheco, University of Iowa, 326 Schaffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919859434. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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