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The Political Context and Infant Health in the United States
Study Explores Political Factors in Determining Infant Health
Washington, DC Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two key indicators of human development life expectancy and infant health outcomes have stagnated or worsened in the U.S. In a new study, Florencia Torche, professor of sociology, and Tamkinat Rauf, PhD student in sociology, both of Stanford University, examine how infant health, which has far-reaching implications for future population health, has been impacted by political context, specifically the political party of the president or governor.
Scholars are increasingly considering how health is determined by inequality and health policy two areas that are shaped by political decisions and, by extension, the political party of leaders and policy makers. Torche and Rauf ask whether the distinctly different policy positions on social and economic issues held by the Republican and Democratic parties
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