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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

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Multivessel Disease: A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Patient Data from Ten Randomised Trials

The Lancet, 2009

Journal Articles

Are American Physicians more Satisfied? - Results from an International Study of Physicians in University Hospitals.

Gesundheitswesen, 2009

Journal Articles

Gender Differences in Procedure-related Adverse Events in Patients Receiving Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Therapy

Circulation, 2009

Journal Articles

Patient Education and Provider Decision Support to Control Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial

American Heart Journal, 2009

Dissertations

Teaching Taboo Topics Without Talking About Them: An Epistemic Study of a New Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in India

Piya Sorcar, 2009

Journal Articles

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

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

Hospital Characteristics Associated with Timeliness of Care in Veterans with Lung Cancer

Department of Medicine Newsletter Spring 2009

Is There Cherry Picking in the ESRD Program? Perceptions from a National Provider Survey

The Microeconomics of Personalized Medicine: Today's Challenge and Tomorrow's Promise

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Health in the United States.

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Multivessel Disease: A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Patient Data from Ten Randomised Trials

Are American Physicians more Satisfied? - Results from an International Study of Physicians in University Hospitals.

Gender Differences in Procedure-related Adverse Events in Patients Receiving Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Therapy

Patient Education and Provider Decision Support to Control Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Teaching Taboo Topics Without Talking About Them: An Epistemic Study of a New Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in India

Radiation Induced Heart Disease: Systemic Disorders in Heart Disease

Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

The Effect of Medicaid Managed Care on Prenatal Care: The Case of "Puerto Rico"

Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Elective Induction of Labor

The "Etiome": Identification and Clustering of Human Disease Etiological Factors

Adult Obesity and Office-based Quality of Care in the United States

Health Reform: Getting The Essentials Right

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: how much responsibility are pediatricians taking?

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Decision Framework for Coordinating Bioterrorism Planning, A: Lessons from the BioNet Program

Cost-effectiveness of voluntary HIV screening in Russia

Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals: Differences by Work Area and Discipline

The Rebirth of Pediatrics

Knowledge-based Errors in Anesthesia: A Paired, Controlled Trial of Learning and Retention

Health-related Quality of Life in a Randomized Trial of Antiretroviral Therapy for Advanced HIV Disease