Original scientific paper
The Influence of Political System on Increase in Life Expectancy
Miljenko Antić
Abstract
This article investigates the influence of political regime on increase in life expectancy and results are surprising. Even though life expectancy is higher in democracies, dictatorships experienced a faster increase in life expectancy than democracies during the 1960–99 period. Furthermore, a linear regression in this article showed that, even when control variables are included, increase in life expectancy is lower in democracies than in dictatorships. Moreover, countries with higher level of life expectancy and faster growth of BDP per capita experienced faster growth of life expectancy. On the basis of experience of the most successful countries, this article concludes that state sponsored universal health care is the best tool for increasing life expectancy.
Keywords
DEMOCRACY; DICTATORSHIP; LIFE EXPECTANCY; HEALTH CARE
Hrčak ID:
13699
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2004.
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