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A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Eran Bendavid and Grant Miller compare health inequalities in the US with 180 countries. In a study in JAMA Health Forum, they found that while global life expectancy inequality has declined since 1960, the US lags behind other high-income countries.

JAMA Health Forum Study

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Although 58% of Americans rely on employer-sponsored health insurance, US corporations do surprisingly little to improve health-care options for their employees, according to research by GSB Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Sara Singer.

Go to GSB Story on the Research Papers

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Josh Salomon, Stanford University

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Stanford Law’s Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and SHP’s Josh Salomon co-author report to address a persistent flaw in the U.S. health system: prioritizing treatment investment based on market potential rather than medical necessity.

Go to NASEM Report

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Grant Miller & Matt Snipp reveal that a 19th-century federal program gave Native Americans land and citizenship, but had devastating consequences.

PNAS Research Article

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

Ruth Gibson and Paul Wise analyze three decades foreign aid sanctions to assess impact on health. They hope the work can help government officials better understand and address how foreign policy decisions affect the well-being of local populations.

Lancet Global Health Article

Publications

Journal Articles

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

Oxford University Press, 2012

Journal Articles

Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure

J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012

Journal Articles

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012

Journal Articles

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2012

A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

Are organic foods safer or healthier than conventional alternatives? A systematic review.

Household Portfolio Choices, Health status and Health Care Systems A Cross-Country Analysis Based on SHARE Data

Linking the population growth rate and the age-at-death distribution

Cost-effective alternatives to liver biopsy in the management of chronic hepatitis C

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

Relationship between patient safety and hospital surgical volume

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

Cost effectiveness of screening strategies for early identification of HIV and HCV infection in injection drug users

Global Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy-Associated Diarrhea

Out-migration of young adults and gender division of intergenerational support in rural China

Screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis in prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context.

Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure

Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Health Centers

Scientific evidence alone is not sufficient basis for health policy

The cost-effectiveness of preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in men who have sex with men in the United States

Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning

Subjective Well-Being and Retirement: Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Optimal link removal for epidemic mitigation: A two-way partitioning approach

Accounting for Biases When Linking Empirical Studies and Simulation Models

Perspectives on cost-effective medicine and the use of cost-effectiveness analyses.

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China