Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities

Vaccination campaigns amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been extensively politicized in a number of countries. Controlling for a number of demographic, social and economic factors, we find a negative statistical relationship between the aggregate vote share of the populist-r...

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Autores principales: Afonso, Alexandre, Votta, Fabio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Covid-19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9452168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35997575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac112
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description Vaccination campaigns amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been extensively politicized in a number of countries. Controlling for a number of demographic, social and economic factors, we find a negative statistical relationship between the aggregate vote share of the populist-right wing Forum for Democracy and the vaccination rate against COVID-19 across Dutch municipalities. We also find a negative relationship between the proportion of individuals with reformed Protestant and Muslim religious beliefs. These relationships can possibly be related to religious worldviews or mistrust towards authority. These results show that the politicization of health behaviours can have detrimental effects on public health campaigns.
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spelling pubmed-94521682022-09-09 Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities Afonso, Alexandre Votta, Fabio Eur J Public Health Covid-19 Vaccination campaigns amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been extensively politicized in a number of countries. Controlling for a number of demographic, social and economic factors, we find a negative statistical relationship between the aggregate vote share of the populist-right wing Forum for Democracy and the vaccination rate against COVID-19 across Dutch municipalities. We also find a negative relationship between the proportion of individuals with reformed Protestant and Muslim religious beliefs. These relationships can possibly be related to religious worldviews or mistrust towards authority. These results show that the politicization of health behaviours can have detrimental effects on public health campaigns. Oxford University Press 2022-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9452168/ /pubmed/35997575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac112 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title_full Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title_fullStr Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title_full_unstemmed Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title_short Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
title_sort electoral and religious correlates of covid-19 vaccination rates in dutch municipalities
topic Covid-19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9452168/
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