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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 99, Issue 12, Pages 2160-2167Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.161414
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- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan
- Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine [R01 CA087595]
- University of Michigan
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Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes on the public's support for diabetes prevention strategies. We found that exposure to the social determinants message led to a divergence between Republicans' and Democrats' opinions, relative to their opinions after viewing an article with no message about the causes of diabetes. These results signify that increasing public awareness of the social determinants of health may not uniformly increase public support for policy action. (Am J Public Health. 2009;99:2160-2167. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.161414)
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