Barriers to Voting and Access to Health Insurance Among US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many states in the United States (US) have introduced barriers to impede voting among individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged groups. This may reduce representation thereby decreasing access to lifesaving goods, such as health insurance.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data from 242,727 adults in the 50 states and District of Columbia participating in the US 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). To quantify access to voting, the Cost of Voting Index (COVI), a global measure of barriers to voting within a state during a US election was used. Multilevel modeling was used to determine whether barriers to voting were associated with health insurance status after adjusting for individual- and state-level covariates. Analyses were stratified

SUBMITTER: Pabayo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904135 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature