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The effects of dictatorship on health: the case of Turkmenistan

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, July 2007
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
The effects of dictatorship on health: the case of Turkmenistan
Published in
BMC Medicine, July 2007
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-5-21
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Authors

Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee

Abstract

There is a health crisis in Turkmenistan similar to, but more severe than, in other Central Asian countries. This paper asks whether the health crisis in Turkmenistan is attributable to the consequences of the dictatorship under president Niyazov, who died in 2006.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Denmark 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 70 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 23%
Student > Bachelor 13 18%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 12%
Other 3 4%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 13 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 33%
Social Sciences 10 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 16 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2023.
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#1,231,496
of 25,757,133 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#863
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Outputs of similar age
#2,044
of 76,746 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#1
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