Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health and health disparities vary substantially by geography, including geopolitical boundaries such as United States congressional districts. Every ten years congressional districts for the House of Representatives are redistricted, but occasionally the Courts step in and force states to redistrict gerrymandered congressional maps. Analyses of court mandated redistricting decisions often focus on the distribution of voters by political party and race, but less is known about how health and health disparities are distributed across congressional districts before and after redistricting. In this analysis, we examine how the magnitude of disparities varied between and within congressional districts in Pennsylvania, before and after the state Supreme Court of Pennsylvania'

SUBMITTER: Schnake-Mahl A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11921522 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature