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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

Significance of Transiently Positive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Results in Detection of Helicobacter pylori in Stool Samples from Children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2005

Journal Articles

What Can a Pilot Congestive Heart Failure Disease Management Program Tell Us About Return on Investment? A Case Study from a Program Offered to Federal Employees

Disease Management, 2005

Journal Articles

Welfare-enhancing technological change and the growth of obesity

American Economic Review, 2005

Journal Articles

Underutilization of aspirin persists in US ambulatory care for the secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

PLoS Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

Are Certain Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial Structures Misleading Clinical and Policy Decisions?

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2005

Journal Articles

Design of the VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network (ATN) Study: Intensive Versus Conventional Renal Support in Acute Renal Failure

Clinical Trials, 2005

Journal Articles

The Impact of Patient Self-Testing of Prothrombin Time for Managing Anticoagulation: Rationale and Design of VA Cooperative Study #481 -- The Home INR Study (THINRS)

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 2005

Journal Articles

The practitioner's dilemma: can we use a patient's race to predict genetics, ancestry, and the expected outcomes of treatment?

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005

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

Significance of Transiently Positive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Results in Detection of Helicobacter pylori in Stool Samples from Children

What Can a Pilot Congestive Heart Failure Disease Management Program Tell Us About Return on Investment? A Case Study from a Program Offered to Federal Employees

Welfare-enhancing technological change and the growth of obesity

Underutilization of aspirin persists in US ambulatory care for the secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

Are Certain Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial Structures Misleading Clinical and Policy Decisions?

Design of the VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network (ATN) Study: Intensive Versus Conventional Renal Support in Acute Renal Failure

Technological advances in cancer and future spending by the elderly

Marriage form and age at first marriage: A comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China

Improved Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources: Using Information About Prevention Program Production Functions

Risk of Intestinal Helminth and Protozoan Infection in a Refugee Population

Communities of Practice in Quality Improvement

Determinants of Influenza Vaccination Timing

The Impact of Patient Self-Testing of Prothrombin Time for Managing Anticoagulation: Rationale and Design of VA Cooperative Study #481 -- The Home INR Study (THINRS)

Childhood Abuse and Welfare Use

Consequences of health trends and medical innovation for the future elderly

Marriage form and duration of post-marital co-residence with parents in rural China: evidence from Songzi

Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Solution-Oriented Research Paradigm

QuantiFERON-TB Predicts Tuberculin Skin Test Boosting in U.S. Foreign-Born

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 3: Hypertension Care)

Marriage form and age at first marriage: a comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China.

Disparities in Diabetes Care: Impact of Mental Illness

The practitioner's dilemma: can we use a patient's race to predict genetics, ancestry, and the expected outcomes of treatment?

Elevated late-night salivary cortisol levels in elderly male type 2 diabetic veterans

Depression treatment during outpatient visits by U.S. children and adolescents

Overestimation of clinical diagnostic performance caused by low necropsy rates