Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health : Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I The context -- 1 What we learned from the right-to-work study -- 2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 3 Life and death in America -- Part II The findings -- 4 Mortality rates of infants and children under age 15 -- 4.1 Infant mortality -- 4.2 Deaths of children 1-4 years old per 100,000 -- 4.3 Deaths of children 5-9 and 10-14 years of age -- 4.4 Excess years of life lost in Trump states -- 5 Vital blood vessels: mortality rates from coronary heart and from cerebrovascular disease -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coronary heart mortality rates below age 75 -- 5.3 Cerebrovascular mortality rates -- 6 Obesity and diabetes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Adult obesity prevalence in 2015: comparison of Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 6.3 Diabetes mortality rates -- 6.4 Obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease -- 7 Risk behaviors -- 7.1 Eating your veggies and fruit -- 7.2 Vehicle fatality incidence 2015 -- 7.3 Cigarettes and alcohol -- 7.4 Unsafe sex: births to teenagers and gonorrhea -- 7.5 Homicide -- 7.6 Index of risk behavior -- 7.7 Why risk behaviors? -- 8 Alzheimer's disease and state voting patterns -- 9 Roots of health patterns of Trump- and Clinton-voting states -- Part III Power and inequality -- 10 The collapse of countervailing force -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The control of inherent instability -- 10.3 Failure of control I -- 10.4 Failure of control II -- 10.5 Discussion and conclusions -- 11 Pentagon capitalism: the Cold War and US deindustrialization -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Ratchet dynamics I -- 11.3 Ratchet dynamics II -- 11.4 Ratchet dynamics III -- 11.5 Ratchet dynamics IV -- 11.6 Failure of efficiency in economic enterprise -- 11.7 The hysteresis of industrial collapse.