Patricia Homan of FSU has found that higher levels of racial inequality in political disenfranchisement are linked to negative health outcomes such as depression, physical limitations, and disabilities in Black populations. The study linked data on disenfranchisement for each U.S. state with health data.
“Disenfranchisement is a really important issue in itself but it’s also highly connected to other measures of Black exclusion like inequality in housing, education, income and residential segregation,” said Homan. “We can say that the amount of racism in your state-level environment really matters.”
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