Are republicans healthier than democrats?
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Are Republicans healthier than Democrats?
Can one's political ideology influence one's health? Aggregate studies correlating average voting patterns with average mortality levels, 1–4 or average health dissatisfaction , 3 suggest that mortality tends to be lower in areas where the majority vote for the party with conservative political orientation. This finding has usually been presented as reflecting the differences in socioeconomic d...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp152