Featured Publications

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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Publications

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

Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure

J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012

Journal Articles

Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-speaking parents of young children: Validation of the Spanish parental health literacy activities test (PHLAT Spanish)

Academic Pediatrics, 2012

Journal Articles

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

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

A modeled analysis of telehealth methods for treating pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury

Household Portfolio Choices, Health status and Health Care Systems A Cross-Country Analysis Based on SHARE Data

Are organic foods safer or healthier than conventional alternatives? A systematic review.

Care Coordination Accountability Measures for Primary Care Practice

Global Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy-Associated Diarrhea

Linking the population growth rate and the age-at-death distribution

Impact of immunosuppression on the development of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) viremia after pediatric liver transplantation

Cost-effective alternatives to liver biopsy in the management of chronic hepatitis C

Perspectives on cost-effective medicine and the use of cost-effectiveness analyses.

Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure

Scientific evidence alone is not sufficient basis for health policy

Cost effectiveness of screening strategies for early identification of HIV and HCV infection in injection drug users

Out-migration of young adults and gender division of intergenerational support in rural China

Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-speaking parents of young children: Validation of the Spanish parental health literacy activities test (PHLAT Spanish)

Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context.

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