Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Turner Fenton Secondary School, Brampton, ON, Canada; Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Apr;298:114855. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114855. Epub 2022 Feb 24.
Examining data on the congressional district level may better align with the interests of Members of Congress who have the power to implement federal health policies. Despite this importance, measurement of health indicators at the congressional district level remains widely understudied. In this study, we estimated overall life expectancy and variation within each congressional district by computing standard deviations of census tract-level age-specific life expectancies for 2010-2015. We found smaller standard deviations in congressional districts with higher overall life expectancy at younger ages, but the pattern was reversed at older ages.
研究国会选区级别的数据可能更符合有权实施联邦卫生政策的国会议员的利益。尽管这一点很重要，但国会选区层面的健康指标衡量仍广泛缺乏研究。在这项研究中，我们通过计算 2010-2015 年按年龄划分的普查区特定预期寿命的标准偏差来估计每个国会选区的总体预期寿命和变化。我们发现，在年龄较小的地区，整体预期寿命较高的国会选区的标准偏差较小，但在年龄较大的地区则相反。
