A new study traces how the policies adopted by Democratic and Republican states over the last several decades have helped widen the gap in life expectancy.
“The overarching conclusion is clear: States that have invested in their populations’ social and economic well-being by enacting more liberal policies over time tend to be the same states that have made considerable gains in life expectancy,” the study’s authors wrote., setting America apart from most other wealthy nations. That decline has fueled tough questions about domestic policy.
To assess what role these policies may be playing, Montez and other researchers reviewed more than 120 policies enacted by states over the years and assessed whether each policy choice in each state was more liberal or more conservative.
Montez said the trends they saw were unmistakable. They also correlated with important points in the nation’s political history. By 2017, residents of the state with the highest life expectancy — Hawaii — were living on average seven years longer than residents of the state with the lowest life expectancy — Mississippi.By contrast, the gap between the best- and worst-performing states in 1984 was less than five years.
Identifying which state policies may have the most impact on how long people live is difficult, the researchers concede. But the study points to a group of policies that appear to correlate most closely with longer lives.
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