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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

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Energy and resource efficiency as a unifying principle for human, environmental and global health

F1000 Research, 2013

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A systematic review of the care coordination measurement landscape

BMC Health Services Research, 2013

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Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2013

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The determinants of drug compliance: evidence based on a quantile regression approach

International Journal of Public Health, 2013

Journal Articles

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013

Journal Articles

Evaluating the State of Quality-Improvement Science through Evidence Synthesis: Insights from the Closing the Quality Gap Series

Perm J, 2013

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Through the Quality Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Improving Health Care Quality in Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science. Methods Research Report.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013

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Wanting to Maximize the Positive and Minimize the Negative: Implications for Affective experience in American and Chinese Contexts

Under review, 2013

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Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning

Journal of Neuroscience, 2012

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

Energy and resource efficiency as a unifying principle for human, environmental and global health

A systematic review of the care coordination measurement landscape

Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States

The determinants of drug compliance: evidence based on a quantile regression approach

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Evaluating the State of Quality-Improvement Science through Evidence Synthesis: Insights from the Closing the Quality Gap Series

Through the Quality Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Improving Health Care Quality in Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science. Methods Research Report.

Girls' education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda

Impact of the Chiranjeevi Yojana Program on Institutional Deliveries and Birth Outcomes in Gujarat, India

Limitations of using same-hospital readmission metrics

Leveraging Information Technology to Improve Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Automating Quality Review For Heart Failure Through a Performance Measurement System

Disability and chronic disease among older adults in India: detecting vulnerable populations through the WHO SAGE Study

Learning about New Technologies through Social Networks: Experimental Evidence on Non-Traditional Stoves in Bangladesh

Implications of Metric Choice for Common Applications of Readmission Metrics

Girls' education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda

WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics

In Latino Genomes, A Rich Source of History

The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

"Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low-and Middle-Income Country Health Programs," in Tony Cuyler (ed.)

Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladesh

Effects of Government Health Spending on Rural Residents’ Health

Cause of the Failure of Government Financial Subsidy for Public Hospitals and Suggestions for Reform

Wanting to Maximize the Positive and Minimize the Negative: Implications for Affective experience in American and Chinese Contexts

Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning