HCPDS working paper informs The Nation’s piece “Republicans Are Hazardous to Your Health”

An HCPDS working paper (Volume 24, No. 1) by Nancy Krieger et al. caught the attention of a reporter for The Nation who was curious about how our votes may affect our health. Although the study is descriptive (“it doesn’t establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a state’s politics and health outcomes”) it does reinforce other emerging literature on the “political determinants of health.”