Featured Publications

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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

Helicobacter pylori Eradication and Gastric Preneoplastic Conditions: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2004

Journal Articles

Medical costs and quality of life 10 to 12 years after randomization to angioplasty or bypass surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease

Circulation, 2004

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

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)

Anthropology of Bioethics

Evaluating Provider Adherence in a Trial of a Guideline-based Decision Support System for Hypertension

Children's Food Consumption During Television Viewing

Helicobacter pylori Eradication and Gastric Preneoplastic Conditions: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Price regulation in secondary insurance markets

Impacts of informal caregiver availability on long-term care expenditures in OECD countries

Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, The

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

Health Plans' Coverage Determinations for Technology-based Interventions: The Case of Electrical Bone Growth Stimulation

Behavioral interventions and cost-effectiveness analysis

U.S. Physician Workforce: Serious Questions Raised, Answers Needed

Cost-effectiveness of photodynamic therapy for high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus

Evaluating Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Programs

Missed opportunities for patient education and social worker consultation at The Arbor Free Clinic

Health-related quality of life in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Clinician Awareness of Adherence to Hypertension Guidelines

The Role of Perceived Team Effectiveness in Improving Chronic Illness Care

Stanford University's experience with managed competition

Promotion and Prescribing of Hormone Therapy After Report of Harm by the Women's Health Initiative

More variation in use of care, more flat-of-the-curve medicine

Medical costs and quality of life 10 to 12 years after randomization to angioplasty or bypass surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease