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

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure: Improving Communication to Reduce Mortality During Bioterrorism Responses

American Journal of Disaster Medicine, 2008

Journal Articles

Relationship between Antiretroviral Prescribing Patterns and Treatment Guidelines in Treatment-Naive, HIV-1 Infected U.S. Veterans

JAIDS, 2007

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

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure: Improving Communication to Reduce Mortality During Bioterrorism Responses

Prevalence and Health Correlates of Prostitution Among Patients Entering Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

The Role of Economics in the QUERI Program: QUERI Series

Variations in Hospital Resource Use for Medicare and Privately Insured Populations in California

Improving Patient Safety by Taking Systems Seriously

Health Care Reform -- Why So Much Talk and So Little Action?

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Winter 2008 Issue

Violence Perpetration and Childhood Abuse Among Men and Women in Substance Abuse Treatment

Using Linked Data to Assess Patterns of Early Intervention (EI) Referral Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Chronic Disease and Trends in Severe Disability in Working-age Populations

Chronic Disease and Severe Disability Among Working-Age Populations

Runtime application of hybrid-asbru clinical guidelines

Does quality improvement implementation affect hospital quality of care?

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Vaccinating Asian and Pacific Islander Adults for Hepatitis B

Marriage form and son preference in rural China: an investigation in three counties

Optimal Mix of Screening and Contact Tracing for Endemic Diseases

Evaluation of Patients With Pulmonary Nodules: When Is It Lung Cancer?

Relationship between Antiretroviral Prescribing Patterns and Treatment Guidelines in Treatment-Naive, HIV-1 Infected U.S. Veterans

Cigarettes and Cinema: Does Parental Restriction of R-Rated Movie Viewing Reduce Adolescent Smoking Susceptibility?

Unconventional solution: A marketing approach to solving health literacy disparities: In reply

Proposition 71 and CIRM - assessing the return on investment

Neural Predictors of Purchases

Contact Tracing to Control Infectious Disease: When Enough is Enough

Best Practice Implementation: Lessons Learned from 20 Partnerships.

Octogenarians and Nonagenarians Starting Dialysis in the United States