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

Cost-effective control of chronic viral diseases: Finding the optimal level of screening and contact tracing

Mathematical Biosciences, 2010

Journal Articles

Insurance mandates, embryo transfer, outcomes - the link is tenuous

Fertility and Sterility, 2010

Journal Articles

Matching outpatient prosthetics order records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to health care utilization databases

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 2010

Working Papers

Can State Early Intervention Programs Meet the Increased Demand of Children Suspected of Having Autism Spectrum Disorders?

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2010

Journal Articles

The Cost Effectiveness and Population Outcomes of Expanded HIV Screening and Antiretroviral Treatment in the United States

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2010

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

Cost-effective control of chronic viral diseases: Finding the optimal level of screening and contact tracing

Insurance mandates, embryo transfer, outcomes - the link is tenuous

Matching outpatient prosthetics order records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to health care utilization databases

Public Avoidance and the Epidemiology of Novel H1N1 Influenza A

Maxillomandibular advancement for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Birth Registration in China: Practices, Problems and Policies

The lure of treatment: Expanded newborn screening and the curious case of histidinemia

Committing to exercise: Contract design for virtuous habit formation

Neonatal Health-care Policy: Promise and Perils of Reform

Cost-effectiveness of nationwide hepatitis B catch-up vaccination among children and adolescents in china

Traumatic stress reactions in parents in pediatric intensive care: A review

Cyclicality, Mortality, and the Value of Time: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child Survival in Colombia

Acquisition of MRI equipment by doctors drives up imaging use and spending

The Potential Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on U.S. Health Care Expenditures

Tularemia presenting as a cervical abscess

Can State Early Intervention Programs Meet the Increased Demand of Children Suspected of Having Autism Spectrum Disorders?

Floating choices: a generational perspective on intentions of rural-urban migrants in China

No follow-up after positive newborn screening: Medical neglect?

Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking

Health, occupational and environmental risks of emancipated migrant farmworker youth

Cost effectiveness of nationwide Hepatitis B catch-up vaccination among children and adolescents in China

The effects of offering health plan choice within employment-based purchasing groups

Using policy to increase prescribing of smoking cessation medications in VA

Science as superstition: selecting medical students

The Cost Effectiveness and Population Outcomes of Expanded HIV Screening and Antiretroviral Treatment in the United States