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 Proposed Framework for Understanding the Forces Behind the Legislation of Universal Health Insurance- Lessons from Ten Countries

Health Services Research, 2011

Journal Articles

Influence of Age on Perioperative Complications Among Patients Undergoing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the United States

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2011

Journal Articles

BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Version

National Academies Press, 2011

Journal Articles

Cost Effectiveness of Elective Induction of Labor at 41 Weeks in Nulliparous Women

American Journal Of Obstetrics Gynecology, 2011

Journal Articles

Expanding the uses of AHRQ's prevention quality indicators: validity from the clinician perspective

Medical Care, 2011

Journal Articles

HIV-1 clade C envelopes obtained from late stage symptomatic Indian patients varied in their ability towards relative CD4 usages and sensitivity to CCR5 antagonist TAK-779

Virus Research, 2011

Journal Articles

Revolution or Evolution? Putting the Flexner Report in Context

Medical Education, 2011

Abstracts

Commitment to exercise: Nudged to Exercise? Or to reveal your true colors?

The Society for Medical Decision Making in Chicago Illinois, 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

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

Knowing loved ones' end-of-life health care wishes: Attachment security predicts caregivers' accuracy

Analyzing self-referral: The author replies

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

Economic evaluation research in the context of Child Welfare policy: A structured literature review and recommendations.

Teaching Taboo Topics through Technology

You owe it to yourself: Boosting retirement saving with a responsibility-based appeal

Improving practice guidelines with patient-specific recommendations

Mammography result notification letters: Are they easy to read and understand?

A Proposed Framework for Understanding the Forces Behind the Legislation of Universal Health Insurance- Lessons from Ten Countries

Demographic consequences of gender discrimination in China: simulation analysis of policy options

Mental health service use by children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbance: results from the LAMS study

Assessment of a Novel Hybrid Delphi and Nominal Group Technique to Evaluate Quality Indicators

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

Influence of Age on Perioperative Complications Among Patients Undergoing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the United States

Mixed-methods designs in mental health services research: A review

Quality-of-Care Indicators for Children With Sickle Cell Disease

Assessment of a Novel Hybrid Delphi and Nominal Groups Technique to Evaluate Quality Indicators

Health system determinants of infant, child and maternal mortality: A cross-sectional study of UN member countries

BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Version

Cost Effectiveness of Elective Induction of Labor at 41 Weeks in Nulliparous Women

Expanding the uses of AHRQ's prevention quality indicators: validity from the clinician perspective

HIV-1 clade C envelopes obtained from late stage symptomatic Indian patients varied in their ability towards relative CD4 usages and sensitivity to CCR5 antagonist TAK-779

Revolution or Evolution? Putting the Flexner Report in Context

Commitment to exercise: Nudged to Exercise? Or to reveal your true colors?

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