Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Public policy and health in the Trump era. |
| Authors: |
Woolhandler, Steffie (AUTHOR), Himmelstein, David U (AUTHOR), Ahmed, Sameer (AUTHOR), Bailey, Zinzi (AUTHOR), Bassett, Mary T (AUTHOR), Bird, Michael (AUTHOR), Bor, Jacob (AUTHOR), Bor, David (AUTHOR), Carrasquillo, Olveen (AUTHOR), Chowkwanyun, Merlin (AUTHOR), Dickman, Samuel L (AUTHOR), Fisher, Samantha (AUTHOR), Gaffney, Adam (AUTHOR), Galea, Sandro (AUTHOR), Gottfried, Richard N (AUTHOR), Grumbach, Kevin (AUTHOR), Guyatt, Gordon (AUTHOR), Hansen, Helena (AUTHOR), Landrigan, Philip J (AUTHOR), Lighty, Michael (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Lancet. 2/20/2021, Vol. 397 Issue 10275, p705-753. 49p. |
| Subjects: |
Medicare, Drug prices, Cultural pluralism, Social order, Poor people, Silicosis, Republicans, Public health, Cocaine-induced disorders |
| Abstract: |
This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies and examines the failures and social schisms that enabled his election. For instance, suicide rates among adults who do not have a college education fell in states that ameliorated poverty by increasing their minimum wage and Earned Income Tax Credit (ie, income supplements available to some low-income workers).[67] Since the 1970s, life expectancy has stagnated in states implementing conservative policies, whereas it has improved in states that implement relatively liberal policies. Notably, the ACA mandated that private insurance plans cover contraceptives and several states have provided state funding for abortion care, required private insurance plans to cover abortion, or allowed qualified non-physician practitioners to do abortions.[320] Intensifying threats to reproductive rights President Trump, who had previously vocalised that he was pro-choice, reversed his position before launching his 2016 presidential campaign. Militarism Despite applying the neoliberal doctrine of reducing government funding to health programmes, President Trump expanded government's immigration enforcement, militarised domestic policing, augmented the defence budget, and reversed the previous US renunciation of the use of land mines and cluster bombs, weapons banned by 164 other nations.[336] These actions exemplify the effect of Trump's health harming affinity for militarism. [Extracted from the article] |
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| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
