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Republican mistrust in healthcare widens US health gap, study finds
Republicans increasingly avoid doctors and vaccines, widening health gaps with Democrats, researchers say Growing Republican mistrust in the healthcare system has widened health disparities between liberals and conservatives, who are more likely to avoid vaccines and the medical system in general, according to a new study. Neil O’Brian, a political science professor at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill and one of the authors of the study published in Nature Human Behaviour , said that his team saw two phases to the phenomenon. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Republican mistrust in healthcare widens US health gap, study finds, Republicans increasingly avoid doctors and vaccines, widening health gaps with Democrats, researchers say Growing Republican mistrust in the healthcare system has widened health disparities between liberals and conservatives, who are more likely to avoid vaccines and the medical system in general, according to a new study. Neil O’Brian, a political science professor at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill and one of the authors of the study published in Nature Human Behaviour , said that his team saw two phases to the phenomenon. Continue reading…
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