Featured Publications

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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

Mental health service use by children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbance: results from the LAMS study

Psychiatric Services, 2011

Journal Articles

Influence of Age on Perioperative Complications Among Patients Undergoing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the United States

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2011

Journal Articles

The influence of PTSD numbing and hyperarousal symptom clusters in the prediction of physical health status in veterans with chronic tobacco dependence and PTSD

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2011

Journal Articles

Health Care Spending Risk, Health Insurance, and Payment to Health Plans

Handbook of Health Economics, 2011

Books

Gender, migration, and well-being of the elderly in rural China. In: K. Eggleston and S. Tuljapurkar.

Aging Asia: Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Stanford, CA: Brookings Institution Press, 2011

Journal Articles

The potential impact of an HIV vaccine with rapidly waning protection on the epidemic in Southern Africa: examining the RV144 trial results

Vaccine, 2011

Journal Articles

Communication of Urgent Public Health Messages to Urban Populations: Lessons Learned from the Massachusetts Water Main Break

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2011

Abstracts

The relationship between low back magnetic resonance imaging, surgery, and spending: Impact of physician self-referral status

Health Services Research, 2011

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

Mental health service use by children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbance: results from the LAMS study

Influence of Age on Perioperative Complications Among Patients Undergoing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the United States

Mixed-methods designs in mental health services research: A review

Assessment of a Novel Hybrid Delphi and Nominal Groups Technique to Evaluate Quality Indicators

Aluminum in Pediatric Parenteral Nutrition Products: Measured Versus Labeled Content.

Expanding the uses of AHRQ's prevention quality indicators: validity from the clinician perspective

The California Challenge: Ensuring Primary Care Access for Medi-Cal Recipients Under the Affordable Care Act

Opioids, Sleep, and Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Mammography result notification letters: Are they easy to read and understand?

Comparative analysis of old-age mortality estimations in Africa

The influence of PTSD numbing and hyperarousal symptom clusters in the prediction of physical health status in veterans with chronic tobacco dependence and PTSD

Health Care Spending Risk, Health Insurance, and Payment to Health Plans

Gender, migration, and well-being of the elderly in rural China. In: K. Eggleston and S. Tuljapurkar.

The potential impact of an HIV vaccine with rapidly waning protection on the epidemic in Southern Africa: examining the RV144 trial results

Communication of Urgent Public Health Messages to Urban Populations: Lessons Learned from the Massachusetts Water Main Break

Commitment to exercise: Nudged to Exercise? Or to reveal your true colors?

Clinical characteristics of children receiving antipsychotic medication

Design elements in implementation research: A structured review of child welfare and child mental health studies

Translating scientific advances to improved outcomes for children with sickle cell disease: a timely opportunity

Doing Good with Good OR: Supporting Cost-effective Hepatitis B Interventions

The relationship between low back magnetic resonance imaging, surgery, and spending: Impact of physician self-referral status

Advancing the science of patient safety

Japanese Universal Coverage: Evolution, Achievements and Challenges

Cost Effectiveness of Elective Induction of Labor at 41 Weeks in Nulliparous Women

Pediatric bipolar spectrum disorder and ADHD: Comparison and comorbidity in the LAMS clinical sample