An Engine, Not a Vessel
Place, Politics, and Health in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12438541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Rocco (0000-0001-5971-7039, Marquette University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-169 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10780874251332242 |
| OpenAlex | W4410215110 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Social scientists often treat places as containers for social and economic phenomena that shape health outcomes. Yet this analytic practice conceals more than it reveals. Local governments in the United States should be understood as engines of both health promotion and stratification. As the contributions to this symposium suggest, governments not only occupy a formal place in the U.S. public health system, their decisions on everything from housing to transportation infrastructure can also have profound impacts on health outcomes. Local political economies likewise renegotiate the parameters of acceptable health interventions, public understandings of health disparities, and the status of population health as a public good. By illustrating these linkages, the authors here suggest important future lines of research on both the promise and limits of local health governance, as well as how the allocation of local political power shapes health disparities
Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education
Space and Place
Revisiting Robinson
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A Century of Census Tracts
State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health
Social epidemiology as medical geography
Planning Ideology and Geographic Thought in the Early Twentieth Century
Profile of the Public Health Workforce
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health
Draining the Swamp
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health
Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Building the Plane While Flying
The consequences of specialised governance on spending and expansion of public transit
What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid‐19 Vaccination Campaign
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy
Inequality, Family Processes, and Health in the "New" Rural America
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |