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

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

PLoS Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

Dig Dis Sci, 2012

Journal Articles

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

Oxford University Press, 2012

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

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

Optimal Screening Policies for Childhood Obesity

Accounting for Biases When Linking Empirical Studies and Simulation Models

Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Health Centers

Decision making for HIV prevention and treatment scale up: Bridging the gap between theory and practice

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

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.

Telephone monitoring and support after discharge from residential PTSD treatment: A randomized controlled trial

Mental health services use by children investigated by child welfare agencies

PEPFAR and Adult Mortality - Reply