Journal article
Public Health and Agenda Setting: Determinants of State Attention to Tobacco and Vaccines
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol.39(3), pp.565-589
06/2014
DOI: 10.1215/03616878-2682612
PMID: 24603088
Abstract
What determines government attention to emerging health issues? We draw on research in agenda setting and policy diffusion to explore the determinants of public health attention in the fifty American states. We find that intergovernmental influence has a strong and consistent influence over state attention to tobacco and vaccines from 1990 to 2010. While national attention to tobacco or vaccines also sparks attention in the states, this effect is smaller than the internal impact of gubernatorial attention and the horizontal influence of neighboring state attention. We find some support that problem severity matters; however, these results are highly dependent on the measures used. Finally, we find no evidence that interest groups influence the attention that states pay to tobacco or vaccines. Our results suggest that institutions play a critical role in explaining government attention to health policy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Public Health and Agenda Setting: Determinants of State Attention to Tobacco and Vaccines
- Creators
- Julianna Pacheco - University of IowaGraeme Boushey - University of California, Irvine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol.39(3), pp.565-589
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- DOI
- 10.1215/03616878-2682612
- PMID
- 24603088
- ISSN
- 0361-6878
- eISSN
- 1527-1927
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2014
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983920523302771
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