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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

A single amino acid substitution in the C4 region in gp120 confers enhanced neutralization of HIV-1 by modulating CD4 binding sites and V3 loop

Virology, 2011

Journal Articles

Comparative analysis of old-age mortality estimations in Africa.

PLoS One, 2011

Working Papers

The Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign and Russia's mortality crisis

NBER, 2011

Journal Articles

The cost-effectiveness of symptom-based testing and routine screening for acute HIV infection in men who have sex with men in the USA

AIDS, 2011

Journal Articles

How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research

BMJ Quality and Safety, 2011

Journal Articles

A double-blind, randomized, controlled, multicenter study to assess the safety and cardiovascular effects of skeletal myoblast implantation by catheter delivery in patients with chronic heart failure after myocardial infarction

American Heart Journal, 2011

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

What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions?

Inflammatory bowel disease-attributable costs and cost-effective strategies in the United States: a review.

REM-related bradyarrhythmia syndrome

The role of theory in research to develop and evaluate the implementation of patient safety practices

Revolution or Evolution? Putting the Flexner Report in Context

A single amino acid substitution in the C4 region in gp120 confers enhanced neutralization of HIV-1 by modulating CD4 binding sites and V3 loop

Comparative analysis of old-age mortality estimations in Africa.

The Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign and Russia's mortality crisis

The cost-effectiveness of symptom-based testing and routine screening for acute HIV infection in men who have sex with men in the USA

Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span

“The Final Inequality: Variance in Age at Death”. In: John Shoven, Ed. Demography and the Economy

Teaching physicians to assess suicidal youth presenting to the emergency department

Advancing a conceptual model of evidence-based practice implementation in public service sectors

Age differences in striatal delay sensitivity during intertemporal choice in healthy adults

Age Differences in Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use in U.S. Individuals

Mixed method designs in implementation research

Inferring model parameters in network-based disease simulation

Induced Abortion and the Mexico City Policy in Africa

Surgically Induced Weight Loss Improve Daytime Sleepiness?

How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research

Influenza Vaccine Supply and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Vaccination Among the Elderly

Cost-effectiveness of an intensive telephone-based intervention for smoking cessation

Improving early literacy promotion: A quality-improvement project for reach out and read

Poverty, Global Health, and Infectious Disease: Lessons from Haiti and Rwanda

A double-blind, randomized, controlled, multicenter study to assess the safety and cardiovascular effects of skeletal myoblast implantation by catheter delivery in patients with chronic heart failure after myocardial infarction