Poverty and Obesity as Political Indicators

Drewnowski Adam ()
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Drewnowski Adam: Center for Public Health Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America

The Economists' Voice, 2017, vol. 14, issue 1, 3

Abstract: Obesity in the US is treated as a medical condition, while its socioeconomic roots are all but ignored. Yet obesity was a univariate predictor of voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election at both state and county level. Health indicators, linked to socioeconomic variables, may be the new political force.

Keywords: health inequalities; insecurity; obesity; social disparities; voting patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/ev-2017-0006

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