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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

Randomized Clinical Trial of the Efficacy of Bupropion Combined with Nicotine Patch in the Treatment of Adolescent Smokers

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004

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

Helicobacter Pylori Infection and the Risk of Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Expanded Screening for HIV in the United States: An Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness

The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth Century United States

National Trends in Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor Use Since Market Release

Trends in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator racial disparity: the importance of geography

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2005 issue

Cost-effectiveness of training unselected laypersons in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation

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

Specialty Selection and Lifetime Returns to Specialization Within Medicine

Evidence-based Guidelines as a Foundation for Performance Incentives

Evidence-based medicine and policy: the case of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Disability forecasts and future Medicare costs

Randomized Clinical Trial of the Efficacy of Bupropion Combined with Nicotine Patch in the Treatment of Adolescent Smokers

Major Depression Among Adolescent Smokers Undergoing Treatment for Nicotine Dependence

Chronic Kidney Disease and Risk of Death, Cardiovascular Events and Hospitalization

Modeling guidelines for integration into clinical workflow

Assessing Weight-Related Biochemical Cardiovascular Risk Factors in African-American Girls

Helicobacter pylori and Risk of Gastroenteritis.

Should U.S. hospitals go 24/7?

An intelligent case-adjustment algorithm for the automated design of population-based quality auditing protocols

Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Self-Management Program in At-Risk, School-Aged Children with Asthma

Kernicterus: Epidemiological Strategies for its Prevention Through Systems-Based Approaches

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 2: Diabetes Care)