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

Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Immigrant Status is Related to Health Care Access, Health Care Utilization, and Health Status

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2009

Journal Articles

Multicenter Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Chronic Stroke: Methods and Entry Characteristics for VA ROBOTICS

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2009

Working Papers

ACCF/ASNC/ACR/AHA/ASE/SCCT/SCMR/SNM 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the America

Circulation, 2009

Journal Articles

Interventional Therapies, Surgery, and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society

Spine, 2009

Journal Articles

Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform

Annals of Internal Medicine, 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

Dialysis: Phosphorus Binders and Survival: Need for Randomized Trials.

Evaluating the Surgery Literature: Can Standardizing Peer-review Today Predict Manuscript Impact Tomorrow?

Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization

The Concurrent Validity and Responsiveness of the Health Utilities Index (HUI 3) Among Patients with Advanced HIV/AIDS

Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Immigrant Status is Related to Health Care Access, Health Care Utilization, and Health Status

Multicenter Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Chronic Stroke: Methods and Entry Characteristics for VA ROBOTICS

A Randomized Trial of Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease

Quality Improvement Strategies for Children With Asthma

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving

Parent Involvement Is Associated With Early Success in Obesity Treatment

Regionalization and Mortality in Neonatal Intensive Care

The Proposed Government Health Insurance Company -- No Substitute for Real Reform

Early-Onset Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Diagnostic Issues

Cost Implications of Reduced Work Hours and Workloads for Resident Physicians

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa: An Evaluation of Outcomes

Persistence of Maternal Depressive Symptoms throughout the Early Years of Childhood.

ACCF/ASNC/ACR/AHA/ASE/SCCT/SCMR/SNM 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the America

Expanding Antiretroviral Options in Resource-Limited Settings-A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Choroidopathy and Kidney Disease: a Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity, The

Documentation Status and Parental Concerns About Development in Young US Children of Mexican Origin

Association of Physician Certification and Outcomes among Patients Receiving an Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator

The Year in Epidemiology, Health Services Research, and Outcomes Research

Interventional Therapies, Surgery, and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society

Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform