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Study gives clues to healthcare debate
Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System said when given information on the genetic factors that cause diabetes, both Democrats and Republicans equally supported public health policies to prevent the disease.
However, Republicans were less supportive of healthcare policies after reading news reports that people with diabetes got their illness because of social or economic factors, such as lack of neighborhood grocery stores or safe places to exercise. Knowledge of social factors increased Democrats' support, the researchers said.
"When people are given the same information they can come away with very different opinions," Sarah E. Gollust of the University of Pennsylvania, who worked on the study during her doctoral work at University of Michigan, said in a statement.
Study participants viewed news articles about type 2 diabetes on the Internet and then answered questions about their opinions on health policy and their attitudes about people with diabetes.
When each viewed an article on the links between social and neighborhood factors and diabetes, 32 percent of Democrats agreed with social factors' role on health compared to 16 percent of Republicans.
The findings are published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/20/2009
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10-21-2009 12:02
Under-Affluient wrote:
Diabetes and local groceries and fitness
I would bet my miesley Social Security Check they can manage to get to a musical/club/bar/picnic event so why is the store so unsurmountable. You can do old fashioned gym exercises in your own yard, shoot hoops, walk about inside the house. Haning out wash is a great money saver and exercise. You know in many - certainly not all - we have not because we made horrible choices either continually or many years ago. Pushing away from the table is mild exercise and certainly is a big help in failing to gain the weight that so plays into diabetes and inability to exercise without a fitness center with heated pool and all that. I am getting to the point that I am disgusted that Mothers on Welfare won't get up and even give the kids cereal and milk. Off to school hungry for the tax-payers to provide breakfast and it goes on and on and on and on.
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