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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

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

Journal Articles

Risk Factors for Unplanned Transfer to Intensive Care Within 24 Hours of Admission From the Emergency Department in an Integrated Healthcare System

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

Cost-effectiveness of early colectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis versus standard medical therapy in severe ulcerative colitis.

Ann Surg, 2012

Journal Articles

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

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

Estimates of missing women in twentieth century China

Development of Quality Indicators for Home and Community-Based Services Population: Technical Report

Telephone monitoring and support after discharge from residential PTSD treatment: A randomized controlled trial

Mental health services use by children investigated by child welfare agencies

PEPFAR and Adult Mortality - Reply

Risk Factors for Unplanned Transfer to Intensive Care Within 24 Hours of Admission From the Emergency Department in an Integrated Healthcare System

Helicopter vs ground transportation for patients with trauma.

RESPECT-PTSD: Re-Engineering Systems for the Primary Care Treatment of PTSD, a randomized controlled trial

Characteristics of U.S. Emergency Departments That Offer Routine Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening.

Cost-effectiveness of early colectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis versus standard medical therapy in severe ulcerative colitis.

Epidemiology of henipavirus disease in humans

The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life

Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies

Diabetes, Its Treatment, and Catastrophic Medical Spending in 35 Developing Countries

Community hospital admission from the emergency department by persons with substance use disorders

Clinical applicability of the incidence of pediatric peptic ulcer bleeding in the United States.