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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

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

Circulation, 2004

Journal Articles

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 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

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

Diet and Physical Activity Counseling During Ambulatory Care Visits in the United States

A systematic review of the economic burden of chronic angina

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2004 issue

Cost-related Medication Underuse: Do Patients with Chronic Illnesses Tell their Doctors?

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

Transformation Of Child Health In The United States, The

Race/Ethnicity and Patient Satisfaction: Using the Appropriate Method to Test for Perceived Differences in Care

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview and Methodology

Consumers' Use of the Internet for Health Insurance

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

National trends in osteoporosis visits and osteoporosis treatment, 1988-2003

Evaluation of primary care patients with chronic stable angina: guidelines from the American College of Physicians

Sustaining a market-based healthcare system

Cardiovascular health and economic effects of smoke-free workplaces

Reflections on the socio-economic correlates of health

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2004

Burden of medical illness in women with depression and posttraumatic stress disorder

Genetic Research and Health Disparities

Clopidogrel versus aspirin for secondary prophylaxis of vascular events: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Systematic Review: Surveillance Systems for Early Detection of Bioterrorism-Related Diseases

Cost-effectiveness of screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C

Regionalization of bioterrorism preparedness and response

Prevention of hepatitis C virus infection

Stable Association Between Strains of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Their Human Host Populations