Abstract
The political and economic contexts in which people live have important implications for their lives. Welfare policy may reflect this political-economic context because it can influence the human experience, including health. Previous research has explored how welfare policies influence health, but no research has explored how welfare generosity influences the relationship between a health intervention and its outcome. Furthermore, no research on welfare policy has used spatial analysis. This study explores the influence of welfare generosity on the relationship between measles vaccination rates and measles cases over time and geographic location using all country-level data available from 1990 to 2016. Control variables include female employment rate, world region, gross domestic product per capita, level of democracy, and the Gini inequality index. Generalized linear mixed model regression is used to quantify the relationship between welfare generosity and measles data, and spatial models and maps will be used to determine the influence of geographic location on this relationship. Results reported include the overall influence that welfare generosity has on the relationship between national childhood measles immunization rates and national measles cases. The influence of time and geographical location is also discussed. This research allows public health professionals to consider new ways of looking at the larger influences on health. It also provides public health professionals with examples of countries where welfare generosity policies are having a positive influence on prevention interventions for health. This research may inspire further study of the influence that policies have on health interventions.
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Theme
Politics, Power, and Institutions
KEYWORDS
Welfare policy, Immunization, Prevention, International health, Measles
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