Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health

Deborah Wallace is an ecologist who pioneered the transfer of ecosystem analytical approaches to social epidemiology and health inequality.Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is well-known for modeling cognitive processes ranging from cellular-level immunity up to national economies and to decision-making in large institutions.

• PART I The context1 What we learned from the right-to-work study2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states3 Life and death in AmericaPART II The findings4 Mortality rates of infants and children under age 154.1 Infant mortality4.2 Deaths of children 1–4 years old per 100,0004.3 Deaths of children 5–9 and 10–14 years of age4.4 Excess years of life lost in Trump states5 Vital blood vessels: mortality rates from coronary heart and from cerebrovascular disease5.1 Introduction5.2 Coronary heart mortality rates below age 755.3 Cerebrovascular mortality rates6 Obesity and diabetes6.1 Introduction6.2 Adult obesity prevalence in 2015: comparison of Trump and Clinton sets of states6.3 Diabetes mortality rates6.4 Obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease7 Risk behaviors7.1 Eating your veggies and fruit7.2 Vehicle fatality incidence 20157.3 Cigarettes and alcohol7.4 Unsafe sex: births to teenagers and gonorrhea7.5 Homicide7.6 Index of risk behavior7.7 Why risk behaviors?8 Alzheimer’s disease and state voting patterns9 Roots of health patterns of Trump- and Clinton-voting statesPART III Power and inequality10 The collapse of countervailing force10.1 Introduction10.2 The control of inherent instability10.3 Failure of control I10.4 Failure of control II10.5 Discussion and conclusions11 Pentagon capitalism: the Cold War and US deindustrialization11.1 Introduction11.2 Ratchet dynamics I11.3 Ratchet dynamics II11.4 Ratchet dynamics III11.5 Ratchet dynamics IV11.6 Failure of efficiency in economic enterprise11.7 The hysteresis of industrial collapse11.8 Discussion and conclusions12 Countervailing forces and their geographic ebbing: public health changes13 References14 Data sets and their sources14.1 Economic14.2 Demographic14.3 Education/social14.4 Political engagement14.5 Life expectancy and death rates14.6 Obesity and diabetes prevalence14.7 Other risk behaviors