IMPORTANCE In the U.S. presidential election of 2016, substantial shift in voting patterns occurred relative to previous elections. Although this shift has been associated with both education and race, the extent to which this shift was related to public health status is unclear. OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which county community health was associated with changes in voting between t...

A widely accepted equation for availability is Availability=MTTF/(MTTF+MTTR), where MTTF is the mean time to failure of a system or subsystem (i.e. the reciprocal of reliability), MTTR is its mean time to recovery, and A is a number between 0 and 1. The equation suggests that to improve availability, a 10x decrease in MTTR (for example) is just as valuable as a 10x increase in MTTF, a founding ...

The articles in this issue were all commissioned in the immediate aftermath of the UK’s Brexit referendum result in June 2016 and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in November 2016 to present a rapid sociological response to the challenges and questions posed by these tumultuous events. Ostensibly these are two very different kinds of political events. The Brexit re...

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According to Rashkin et al. (2016) and other researchers, a text not only reveals the attitudes of the discourse referents dealt with in the text, but it also indicates how they are framed by the text author. Do they play a positive or negative role in the exposed narrative? We call this the author’s role framing. While the attitudes tell us who is for or against who (pro and con relations), th...

Members of Congress usually escape the humid summer heat and head home for the August recess. But this year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is keeping them in Washington, DC, for 2 more weeks in what is expected to be an unsuccessful attempt to pass the Better Care Reconciliation Act, repealing and re placing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), former President Barack ...

Williams and co-author Morgan Medlock, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, explored a small but growing body of evidence on how election campaigns can influence health, and considered the implications for health care providers. They looked at existing studies that examined health impacts in the wake of the elections of former U.S. presidents, including President Do...