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

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 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

Abstracts

The California Challenge: Ensuring Primary Care Access for Medi-Cal Recipients Under the Affordable Care Act

California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2011

Journal Articles

Gain and loss learning differentially contribute to life financial outcomes

PLoS ONE, 2011

Journal Articles

The potential impact of an HIV vaccine with rapidly waning protection on the epidemic in Southern Africa: examining the RV144 trial results

Vaccine, 2011

Journal Articles

Association of coronary CT angiography or stress testing with subsequent utilization and spending among medicare beneficiaries

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of expanding harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy in a mixed HIV epidemic: A modeling analysis for ukraine

PLoS Medicine, 2011

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

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

Determinants of the cost of health services used by veterans with HIV

Health Care Spending Risk, Health Insurance, and Payment to Health Plans

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

Teaching physicians to assess suicidal youth presenting to the emergency department

Age and the purchase of prescription drug insurance by older adults

Gender, migration, and well-being of the elderly in rural China. In: K. Eggleston and S. Tuljapurkar.

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

Comparative analysis of old-age mortality estimations in Africa.

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

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

The California Challenge: Ensuring Primary Care Access for Medi-Cal Recipients Under the Affordable Care Act

Gain and loss learning differentially contribute to life financial outcomes

The potential impact of an HIV vaccine with rapidly waning protection on the epidemic in Southern Africa: examining the RV144 trial results

Association of coronary CT angiography or stress testing with subsequent utilization and spending among medicare beneficiaries

Opioids, Sleep, and Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Access to pediatric subspecialty care: a population study of pediatric rheumatology inpatients in California

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

Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of expanding harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy in a mixed HIV epidemic: A modeling analysis for ukraine

The charcot foot in diabetes

Methodological issues in child welfare and children's mental health implementation research

Induced Abortion and the Mexico City Policy in Africa

Assessing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of concurrency reduction for HIV prevention