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

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

Journal Articles

Communication of Urgent Public Health Messages to Urban Populations: Lessons Learned from the Massachusetts Water Main Break

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 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

Pediatric bipolar spectrum disorder and ADHD: Comparison and comorbidity in the LAMS clinical sample

Weighing costs, benefits of imaging: Author response

Cost-effectiveness analysis of adjunct VSL#3 therapy versus standard medical therapy in pediatric ulcerative colitis.

Using Nudges in Exercise Commitment Contracts

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

Management of children with sickle cell disease: A comprehensive review of the literature

Increasing Saving Behavior Through Age-Progressed Renderings of the Future Self

Surgically Induced Weight Loss Improve Daytime Sleepiness?

Communication of Urgent Public Health Messages to Urban Populations: Lessons Learned from the Massachusetts Water Main Break

Marriage squeeze in China's future

Relationship of persistent manic symptoms to the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar spectrum disorders

Predictors of placement for children who initially remained in their homes after an investigation for abuse or neglect

Variance in death and its implications for modeling and forecasting mortality

One-year outcomes of community-acquired and health care-associated pneumonia in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Home blood pressure management and improved blood pressure control: results from a randomized controlled trial

Japanese Universal Coverage: Evolution, Achievements and Challenges

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

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

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

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

Efficient stockpiling and shipping policies for humanitarian relief: UNHCR's inventory challenge

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