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ArticleQJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians2005

Democracy and health.

J P Ruger

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Article in QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients' Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
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  3. Policy Analysis of Institutionalization of the Social Approach to Health in Iran.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2025
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  4. Polity's Enduring Effect on Infant Health Outcomes.Maternal and child health journal · 2022
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  5. COVID-19 and erosion of democracy.Economic modelling · 2022
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  11. [Democracy and Covid-19 mortality in Europe.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2020
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  17. Civic participation and self-rated health: a cross-national multi-level analysis using the world value survey.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2015
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  20. Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

J P RugerYale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, Suite 316, P.O. Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA. jennifer.ruger@yale.edu

Funding

Economic Evaluation of Addiction ServicesK01DA016358 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RUGER, JENNIFER PRAH · 2003 to 2007
$717k
NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA016358NIDA NIH HHS K01DA01635801
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DemocracyPoliticsAuthoritarianismChinaDisease OutbreaksGovernmentHealth PolicyHealth ServicesHIV InfectionsHumansPhilosophy, MedicalSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeStarvation

Identifiers

PMID15781480
PMCPMC4006218

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