Health and Political Engagement

• Main Authors: Mattila, Mikko, Rapeli, Lauri, Wass, Hanna, Söderlund, Peter
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2017; University of Helsinki; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Adolescent Depressed Mood; Comparative Political Data Set; Compulsory Voting; Compulsory Voting Laws; Compulsory Voting Systems; Democracy; Ess; Excellent Self-rated Health; External Efficacy; Hanna Wass; health; Health & Illness; Health & Society; Health Policy; Health, illness and addiction: social aspects; Healthier Citizens; High Participation Groups; Lauri Rapeli; Lower Voting Propensity; Mattila; Medical policy; Medical sociology; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Mikko Mattila; Non-elected Candidates; Nonfiction; Nursing; Nursing and ancillary services; OLS Regression Coefficient; Percentage Point Higher Probability; Personal and public health / health education; Peter Söderlund; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Political Behavior and Participation; Political participation; Political Science; Political structure and processes; Political structures: democracy; Politics; Politics and government; Public health; Public health and preventive medicine; Rapelli; Single Member Districts; Social and ethical issues; Social and political philosophy; Social Evaluation Anxiety; Social sciences; Social Theory; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; SRH Measure; SRH Question; Topics in philosophy; Trade Union Density; Turnout Gaps; Turnout Inequality; Voting Advice Application; Percentage Point Higher Probability; High Participation Groups; Single Member Districts; Ess; External Efficacy; Excellent Self-rated Health; Non-elected Candidates; OLS Regression Coefficient; Compulsory Voting; Comparative Political Data Set; SRH Measure; SRH Question; Compulsory Voting Systems; Turnout Inequality; Turnout Gaps; Healthier Citizens; Voting Advice Application; Trade Union Density; Higher Trade Union Density; Adolescent Depressed Mood; Lower Voting Propensity; Social Evaluation Anxiety; Compulsory Voting Laws
• ISBN: 9780367878436; 1138673803; 9781138673809; 0367878437; 9781317202110; 1317202104; 9781317202127; 1317202112; 1317202120; 9781315561691; 9781317202103; 1315561697
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315561691

Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political engagement. Using both individual-level and country-level data drawn from the European Social Survey, World Values Survey and new Finnish survey data, it provides an extensive analysis of how health and political engagement are connected. It measures the impact of various health factors on a wide range of forms of political engagement and attitudes and helps shed light on the mechanisms behind the interaction between health and political engagement. This text is of key interest scholars, students and policy-makers in health, politics, and democracy, and more broadly in the social and health and medical sciences.