{"id":224554,"date":"2025-11-05T05:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/voting-is-a-stronger-determinant-of-mortality-than-education-a-full-electorate-survival-analysis-with-21-year-follow-up"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:32:19","slug":"voting-is-a-stronger-determinant-of-mortality-than-education-a-full-electorate-survival-analysis-with-21-year-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/voting-is-a-stronger-determinant-of-mortality-than-education-a-full-electorate-survival-analysis-with-21-year-follow-up","title":{"rendered":"Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education: a full-electorate survival analysis with 21-year follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voting-is-a-stronger-determinant-of-mortality-than-education-a-full-electorate-survival-analysis-with-21-year-follow-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong> Although voting is recognised as a social determinant of health, the association between electoral participation and subsequent mortality at an individual level has not been established.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong> To assess whether voters and non-voters differ in mortality risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods<\/strong> We used register-based information on electoral participation in the 1999 parliamentary elections from the full electorate of at least 30-year-old Finnish citizens living in mainland Finland linked to registers containing sociodemographic and mortality information by Statistics Finland. Mortality was assessed with Cox proportional hazards regression models, with follow-up until the end of 2020 (n=3 185 572 individuals; 58 133 493 person-years; 1 053 483 deaths).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Although voting is recognised as a social determinant of health, the association between electoral participation and subsequent mortality at an individual level has not been established. Objective To assess whether voters and non-voters differ in mortality risk. Methods We used register-based information on electoral participation in the 1999 parliamentary elections from the full electorate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}