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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

Risk Assessment for and Strategies to Reduce Perioperative Pulmonary Complications for Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Guideline from the American College of Physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006

Journal Articles

International Differences in Patient and Physician Perceptions of "High Quality" Healthcare: A Model from Pediatric Cardiology

American Journal of Cardiology, 2006

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CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2006 issue

2006

Journal Articles

The Instrumental Variable Method to Study Self-selection Mechanism: A Case of Influenza Vaccination

Value in Health, 2006

Journal Articles

Healthcare in the New Vietnam: Comparing patients' satisfaction with outpatient care in a traditional neighborhood clinic and a new, western-style clinic in Ho Chi Minh City

Social Science & Medicine, 2006

Journal Articles

Addressing Resource Allocation Issues in Recommendations from Clinical Practice Guideline Panels: Suggestions from an American College of Chest Physicians Task Force

Chest, 2006

Journal Articles

Effect of Geriatrics Evaluation and Management on Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From a Randomized Trial

Medical Care, 2006

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

The Cost-effectiveness of Therapy With Teriparatide and Alendronate in Women With Severe Osteoporosis

Accuracy of Quantitative Ultrasound for Identifying Patients with Osteoporosis

Socioeconomic Status and the Prevention Quality Indicators

Cost-effectiveness of Screening BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers With Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Off-label Prescribing Among Office-Based Physicians

Reward-Motivated Learning: Mesolimbic Activation Precedes Memory Formation

The Effects of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance

Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care: What Explains the Different Results?

Introduction to Personal Health Records, An

Risk Assessment for and Strategies to Reduce Perioperative Pulmonary Complications for Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Guideline from the American College of Physicians

International Differences in Patient and Physician Perceptions of "High Quality" Healthcare: A Model from Pediatric Cardiology

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2006 issue

The Instrumental Variable Method to Study Self-selection Mechanism: A Case of Influenza Vaccination

Healthcare in the New Vietnam: Comparing patients' satisfaction with outpatient care in a traditional neighborhood clinic and a new, western-style clinic in Ho Chi Minh City

Systematic Review: A Century of Inhalational Anthrax Cases from 1900 to 2005

Statin and Beta-Blocker Therapy and the Initial Presentation of Coronary Heart Disease

Measures of Pediatric Health Care Quality Based on Hospital Administrative Data

Estimating Probit Models with Self-Selected Treatments

The Effect of Diagnosis with HIV Infection on Health-Related Quality of Life

The Costs of Newborn Care in California: A Population-Based Study

Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2006 issue

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 4: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior

Addressing Resource Allocation Issues in Recommendations from Clinical Practice Guideline Panels: Suggestions from an American College of Chest Physicians Task Force

Effect of Geriatrics Evaluation and Management on Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From a Randomized Trial