Effect of voting abstention and life course socioeconomic position on self-reported health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11174644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Onyebuchi A Arah (0000-0002-9067-1697, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 759-760 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jech.2007.071100 |
| PMID | 18621964 |
| OpenAlex | W2032093461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
There is increasing evidence, mostly at the ecological level, that voting patterns affect health.1–4 Poor political participation harms health, and poor health hampers political participation.1–4 Unlike previous work, this study analyses the effect of individual life course socioeconomic position (SEP) and voting abstention (as an indicator of political participation) on self-reported individual health. Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) of a cohort born in a single week in Britain in March 1958, the outcome variable was defined as self-reported fair/poor general health (reference: excellent/good) in 1981, 1991, 2000 and 2004.5 Voting abstention was a binary measure of whether respondents participated (0)
Environmental health · Life course approach · Politics · Population · Position (finance) · Socioeconomic status · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 0.54 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |