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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

Quality of US Outpatient Care: Temporal Changes and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care

Annals of Internal Medicine, supplement on "Challenges of Summarizing Better Information for Better Health", 2005

Journal Articles

Work limitations among working persons with rheumatoid arthritis: results, reliability, and validity of the work limitations questionnaire in 836 patients

Journal of Rheumatology, 2005

Journal Articles

Cost-Effectiveness of Defending against Bioterrorism: A Comparison of Vaccination and Antibiotic Prophylaxis against Anthrax

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

Quality of US Outpatient Care: Temporal Changes and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care

Employment outcomes and PTSD symptom severity

Free nicotine replacement therapy programs vs implementing smoke-free workplaces: a cost-effectiveness comparison

Post-fielding Surveillance of a Guideline-based Decision Support System

Male involvement in cardiovascular preventive healthcare in two rural Costa Rican communities

Work limitations among working persons with rheumatoid arthritis: results, reliability, and validity of the work limitations questionnaire in 836 patients

Lost Boys of Sudan: Functional and Behavioral Health of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Resettled in the United States, The

Assessing the benefits and costs of new therapies for hepatitis B virus infection

Distributed neural representation of expected value

Lessons in safety climate and safety practices from a California hospital consortium

Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

U.S. adolescents receive suboptimal preventive counseling during ambulatory care

National trends in statin use by coronary heart disease risk category

Cost-Effectiveness of Defending against Bioterrorism: A Comparison of Vaccination and Antibiotic Prophylaxis against Anthrax

Technology Diffusion, Hospital Variation, and Racial Disparities Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: 1989-2000

Private and public cross-subsidization: financing Beijing's health-insurance reform

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2005 issue

Free Internet Access, the Digital Divide, and Health Information

Veterans' study to improve the control of hypertension (V-STITCH): design and methodology, The

An Economic Evaluation of Inpatient Residential Treatment Programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Health Care Vouchers - A Proposal for Universal Coverage

Expenditures in Schizophrenia: A Comparison of Olanzapine and Risperidone

Listening to Patients: Cultural and Linguistic Barriers to Health Care Access

Invariance and Inconsistency in Utility Ratings