Featured Publications

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical period after World War II.

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Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

This policy brief by Alyce Adams and Mateen Ghassemi examines the financial burden experienced by cancer patients and their families, impacting around half of cancer survivors.

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International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Stanford Health Policy’s Maria Polyakova, PhD, and colleagues set out to measure how much doctors earn and, crucially, where their incomes fall within the overall income rankings of four wealthy countries: the US, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands

NBER Paper

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

New research by SIEPR and SHP scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.

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Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

A Study by Eran Bendavid in The Lancet Global Health finds the number of violent deaths in the Gaza Strip in the first year of the conflict with Israel was underreported

The Lancet Global Health Study

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

SHP's Michelle Mello argues there are late-career physician programs that can balance patient safety with procedural fairness.

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Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

SHP’s Michelle Mello and former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky offer recommendations to clinicians struggling to follow new vaccine guidelines.

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Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

SHP researchers and colleagues at the California Correctional Health Care Services find that COVID-19 is associated with significant increases in hypertension incidence in the large, racially and ethnically diverse prison population.

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When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

In this Health Affairs study, Stanford researchers examine the promises of efficiency and risks of supercharged flaws in the race to use artificial intelligence in health care.

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Journal Articles

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

Under review, 2013

Journal Articles

Geographical Rural Status and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of 6 Years of National United Network of Organ Sharing Data.

J Pediatr, 2012

Journal Articles

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012

Journal Articles

Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality, 2012

Journal Articles

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2012

Journal Articles

Estimates of missing women in twentieth century China

Continuity and Change, 2012

Journal Articles

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2012

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

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

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

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

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

Effects of Government Health Spending on Rural Residents’ Health

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

Relationship between patient safety and hospital surgical volume

HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa

The cost-effectiveness of preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in men who have sex with men in the United States

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

Subjective Well-Being and Retirement: Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Geographical Rural Status and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of 6 Years of National United Network of Organ Sharing Data.

Development of Quality Indicators for Home and Community-Based Services Population: Technical Report

Optimal link removal for epidemic mitigation: A two-way partitioning approach

Determinants of Adverse Events in Vascular Surgery

Screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis in prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Estimates of missing women in twentieth century China

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada