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JAMA Forum: Resuscitating Abortion Rights in Emergency Care
JAMA Network,
2022
September 8, 2022
In this JAMA Forum article by Stanford Health Policy's Michelle Mello, the professor of health policy and law writes that reports are mounting of pregnant patients being denied potentially lifesaving care in emergency departments.
Journal Articles
Many high-income countries have rapidly pivoted from hard decisions about who may receive COVID-19 vaccines, due to shortages, to equally hard decisions about who must receive them. As lasting containment of COVID-19 remains elusive, many nations—from Costa Rica, to Austria, to Turkmenistan—are turning to vaccination mandates of various kinds. Mandates, however, are controversial in many countries. Austria's proposed mandate for adults, for example, provoked mass protests. Some objectors argue mandates represent undue encroachment on individual liberty. Some other objectors maintain that mandates will not be an effective policy for COVID-19 because many individuals will seek to evade them, and mandates might erode support for other public health measures such as mask wearing.
Effectiveness of vaccination mandates in improving uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA
The Lancet,
2022
July 8, 2022
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In this Viewpoint we consider the likely effectiveness of policies that require COVID-19 vaccines in improving vaccine uptake and reducing disease in the USA, in view of the evidence from past vaccination mandates and distinctive aspects of COVID-19. Two dimensions of effectiveness in improving uptake are relevant: (1) target-group effectiveness (the extent to which a mandate improves uptake of vaccines in the group covered by the policy) and (2) population effectiveness (the extent to which mandate policies improve vaccination coverage in the US population).
Commentary
Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows
2022
June 3, 2022
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Millions of Americans may have asked themselves these questions, or versions of them—especially in the wake of horrific mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Uvalde. Record-breaking spikes in gun sales over the last two years, alongside surveys indicating that self-protection continues to be the dominant reason for buying guns, underscore a widely-held belief that a gun in the home has security benefits.
A new study from my research team, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows no such benefits. We found the opposite: people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted.
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Educational Gradients in Disability Among Asia’s Future Elderly: Projections for the Republic of Korea and Singapore
Asia Development Review,
2022
April 1, 2022
Journal Articles
A Generalizable Data Assembly Algorithm for Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Jamia Open ,
2021
August 2, 2021
Journal Articles
Democracies Linked To Greater Universal Health Coverage Compared With Autocracies, Even In An Economic Recession
Health Affairs,
2021
August 1, 2021
Journal Articles
COVID-19 in the California State Prison System: an Observational Study of Decarceration, Ongoing Risks, and Risk Factors
Journal of General Internal Medicine ,
2021
July 21, 2021
Commentary
Legal Look at Proof of Vaccination & Ongoing Fight Against COVID-19
2021
July 21, 2021
Stanford health law experts Michelle Mello and David Studdert discuss the ongoing pandemic, proof of vaccination “passports” at the state and federal levels, and a July 19 ruling that Indiana University could require that its students be vaccinated.
Working Papers
Compliance with Price Transparency by California Hospitals
2021
July 10, 2021
An examination of how California hospitals are adhering to the federal policy on price transparency.
Commentary
My Husband Had A Stroke After His COVID Vaccine. We Gave Our Kid His Shot Anyway
2021
July 5, 2021
Journal Articles
Incorporating Health Equity Into COVID-19 Reopening Plans: Policy Experimentation in California
American Public Health Association,
2021
June 10, 2021
Commentary
Contact-tracing App Curbed the Spread of COVID in England and Wales
Nature,
2021
May 25, 2021
Digital contact tracing has the potential to limit the spread of COVID-19. A contact-tracing smartphone app that has been readily adopted by people in England and Wales has shown efficacy in reducing disease spread.
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Impact of Treatment Duration on Mortality Among Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder in The United States Veterans Health Administration
Wiley Online Library,
2021
May 17, 2021
Working Papers
Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic
Nation Bureau of Economic Research,
2021
April 1, 2021
Journal Articles
Choices In a Crisis - Individual Preferences Among SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines
The New England Journal of Medicine ,
2021
March 3, 2021
Now that a third COVID-19 vaccine has been given emergency-use authorization, Michelle Mello and colleagues ask whether individuals should be able to choose which vaccine they receive.
Journal Articles
To Address Drug Affordability, Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit
JAMA Network,
2021
February 25, 2021
Journal Articles
Influence and Information in Team Decisions: Evidence from Medical Residency
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,
2021
February 1, 2021
I study team decisions among physician trainees. Exploiting a discontinuity in team roles across trainee tenure, I find evidence that teams alter decision-making, concentrating influence in the hands of senior trainees. I also demonstrate little convergence in variation of trainee effects despite intensive training. This general pattern of trainee effects on team decision-making exists in all types of decisions and settings that I examine. In analyses evaluating mechanisms behind this pattern, I find support for the idea that significant experiential learning occurs during training and that teams place more weight on judgments of senior trainees in order to aggregate information.
Journal Articles
Lancet Series on Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings
2021
January 24, 2021
A new four-paper series in The Lancet exposes the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women’s and children’s health.
Journal Articles
Short-term and Long-term Educational Outcomes of Infants Born Moderately and Late Preterm
2021
January 5, 2021
Journal Articles
Alternative Dose Allocation Strategies to Increase Benefits From Constrained COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
Annals of Internal Medicine ,
2021
January 5, 2021
Working Papers
Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
2020
December 31, 2020
Working Papers
Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
2020
December 31, 2020
Commentary
Far More Transparency is Needed for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
STAT News,
2020
November 5, 2020
With vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, on the near-term horizon, U.S. policymakers are focusing on how to ensure that Americans get vaccinated. This challenge has been compounded by reports that White House officials are exerting undue influence over the agencies that would ordinarily lead such efforts, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Journal Articles
School Reopenings and the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Network,
2020
October 28, 2020
Few issues in the policy response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have inspired as impassioned debate as school reopening. There is broad agreement that school closures involve heavy burdens on students, parents, and the economy, with profound equity implications, but also that the risk of outbreaks cannot be eliminated even in a partial reopening scenario with in-school precautions. Consensus largely ends there, however: the approaches states and localities have taken to integrating these concerns into school reopening plans are highly variable.
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