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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

Improving Adherence to Guidelines for Hypertension Drug Prescribing: Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of General versus Patient-Specific Recommendations

American Journal of Managed Care, 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

Cost-effectiveness of cervical-cancer screening in five developing countries.

Evaluating The Efficiency Of California Providers In Caring For Patients With Chronic Illness

The costs of reducing loss to follow-up in South African cervical cancer screening.

Health Care Reform: Why? What? When?

Improving Adherence to Guidelines for Hypertension Drug Prescribing: Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of General versus Patient-Specific Recommendations

The patents-based pharmaceutical development process: rationale, problems, and potential reforms

Cost-Effectiveness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Screening for Hereditary Hemochromatosis: a Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2005 issue

Internet use and stigmatized illness

Rating Methodological Quality: Toward Improved Assessment and Investigation

Competition in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and Efficiency

ACE inhibitor reminders attached to echocardiography reports of patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction

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Helicobacter pylori Infection in Different Generations of Hispanics in the San Francisco Bay Area

Adherence to Medication

An Empirical Assessment of High Performing Physician Organizations: Results from a National Study

Health insurance and the obesity externality

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction

Health Care Expenditures Reexamined

Preliminary evaluation of a visual analog function scale for use in rheumatoid arthritis

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2005 issue

Health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review

Intergenerational Health Disparities: Socioeconomic Status, Women's Health Conditions, and Child Behavior Problems

Accuracy of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Mediastinal Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis