Abstract In this paper, we study the extent to which spread of democracy affects country-level health outcomes in 115 countries, between 1960 and 2015. To do this, use both level change measures our regressions, concentrating on within-country variations. Our finding is that a one standard deviation increase 0.35 associated with 0.11 life expectancy, even after accounting for various country ti...

This year marks the twentieth Anniversary of the Cochrane Collaboration from its foundation in 1993. This landmark provides an opportunity to consider what Cochrane has done for evidence-based healthcare of older people, and how the collaboration may develop into the future. The Cochrane Collaboration [1] is an international healthcare charity that was inspired by the Scottish epidemiologist Ar...

GIS has developed from a simple intelligent mapping system to a complete geospatial information technology (IT) solution. GIS has traditionally been underused in the geothermal industry, however its power, cost effectiveness, and user-friendliness has improved to a level that should make it attractive to even the smallest of companies. GIS is limited only by creativity and can improve access, a...