The Influence of Sustainability on COVID-19 Death Rates by State in the USA.

IF 2.2 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Ecohealth Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI:10.1007/s10393-025-01737-7

Lee Liu

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Abstract

This paper investigates the role that sustainability played in shaping interstate difference in pandemic outcomes among the 50 states of the USA, in terms of standardized death rate from COVID-19 and excess death rates. Political ideology is currently a popular possible explanation for discrepancies among states in pandemic outcomes, given that Republican states tended to have higher death rates compared to Democratic ones. Additionally, partisan politics have been criticized for hindering the US pandemic response, especially in the early stages of the pandemic. However, this study demonstrates that the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) index may serve as a more significant predictor of the death and excess death rates among the US states than political affiliation. This suggests that it was not "red" or "blue," but rather "green" that was the most important factor in determining COVID-19 mortality. Pandemic lessons are lessons of sustainability.

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可持续性对美国各州COVID-19死亡率的影响

本文从COVID-19的标准化死亡率和超额死亡率的角度，研究了可持续性在美国50个州大流行结果的州际差异中所起的作用。鉴于共和党州的死亡率往往高于民主党州，政治意识形态目前是各州之间流行病结果差异的一个流行可能解释。此外，党派政治被批评阻碍了美国的大流行应对，特别是在大流行的早期阶段。然而，这项研究表明，可持续发展目标（SDG）指数可能比政治派别更能预测美国各州的死亡率和超额死亡率。这表明，决定COVID-19死亡率的最重要因素不是“红色”或“蓝色”，而是“绿色”。大流行的教训就是可持续性的教训。

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Ecohealth 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

4.50

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4.00%

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审稿时长

>24 weeks

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