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Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hsb-10.1177_00221465211069873 for Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White Suicide in the United States, 2000���2016 by Simone Rambotti in Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Supplemental material, extreme_and_inconsistent_supplemental_material for Extreme and Inconsistent: A Case-Oriented Regression Analysis of Health, Inequality, and Poverty by Simone Rambotti and Ronald L. Breiger in Socius

Advancement in medical science and technology enhanced the human capacity to intervene in the process of dying, forcing professionals and the public to face ethical dilemmas and question the boundary between life and death. The contentious discourse on this boundary is particularly salient given the unprecedented levels of population aging all over the world. This paper analyzes the discursive field surrounding a notable Italian end-of-life controversy. Combining field and narrative theories, the present study spans structural aspects and rhetorical mechanisms. Results show that not only are antithetical interpretations of the event tied to media’s ideological leanings, but the latter are also systematically associated with different sequential structures of headlines and story leads. Competing actors produce alternative frameworks by identifying different sets of perpetrators.

Recently, much scholarly work has been conducted examining the effect of rising income inequality on health outcomes. However, this work is somewhat inconclusive. Chiefly, the mechanisms which could produce such an association are still being sorted out. Further, much of this work is focused on mortality outcomes with little attention to how this process operates for actual health conditions, including chronic health problems, which are arguably now the main public health concerns of the developed world. In this study, in a series of multilevel binary logistic regression models using data from the 2005 and 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), we examine the association between state-level income inequality, poverty, and social welfare measures on spending and policy to examine the association between these factors for three chronic health outcomes: diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. We find that income inequality is only conditionally positively related to the diagnosis of two of the three outcomes, diabetes and hypertension, and only in 2007. However, absolute poverty is related to the outcome across all three dependent variables. Additionally, certain social welfare measures attenuate the effects of both income inequality and absolute poverty, suggesting that certain welfare policies reduce this association.

Partendo dalla definizione di post-democrazia data da Colin Crouch (di cui si cerca di individuare dimensioni e relativi indicatori), il testo analizza i contenuti dei discorsi politici dei leader dei principali partiti politici nel corso della campagna per le elezioni politiche del 2006. L'indagine di cui si da conto è stata finanziata dalla Fondazione Gianni Statera