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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2004

Effect of democracy on health: ecological study.

Alvaro Franco, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet, Maria Teresa Ruiz

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Threats to democracy are threats to health.Nature human behaviour · 2026
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  2. Social determinants of health, the research we need.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2024
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  6. Government Reactions, Citizens' Responses, and COVID-19 around the World.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  7. Corruption and Population Health in the European Union Countries-An Institutionalist Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Polity's Enduring Effect on Infant Health Outcomes.Maternal and child health journal · 2022
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  11. Democracy and case fatality rate of COVID-19 at early stage of pandemic: a multicountry study.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alvaro FrancoObservatory of Public Policies and Health, Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad de Alicante, Edificio de Ciencias Sociales, APDO 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain.
Carlos Alvarez-Dardet
Maria Teresa Ruiz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DemocracyHealth StatusLife ExpectancyMaternal MortalityCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleFreedomHumansIncomeInfantInfant MortalityPregnancyRegression Analysis

Identifiers

PMID15604165
PMCPMC535957

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