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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

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

Academic Pediatrics, 2009

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

Journal Articles

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

The Milbank Quarterly, 2009

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

Generating genome-scale candidate gene lists for pharmacogenomics.

Intergenerational support and subjective health of older people in rural China: a gender-based longitudinal study

Effects of Mammography Screening Under Different Screening Schedules: Model Estimates of Potential Benefits and Harms

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

The health literacy of parents in the united states: A nationally representative study

Saving for the future self: neural measures of future self-continuity predict temporal discounting

Payment Reform for Safety-Net Institutions - Improving Quality and Outcomes

Optimal Investment in HIV Prevention Programs: More Is Not Always Better

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Newborns for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: failure is not an option.

Tuberculosis in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data

The role of parent health literacy among urban children with persistent asthma

The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity

CABG versus PCI for multivessel coronary artery disease - authors' reply

Patient safety climate in 92 us hospitals differences by work area and discipline

Estimation of the warfarin dose with clinical and pharmacogenetic data.

Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting

Can an Infectious Disease Genomics Project ‘Predict and Prevent’ the next Pandemic?

Parental misinterpretations of over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medication labels

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

Disparities in Trauma Center Access Despite Increasing Utilization: Data From California, 1999 to 2006

A Public Health Approach to Children's Mental Health Services: Possible Solutions to Current Service Inadequacies

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society