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

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

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

Pediatrics, 2011

Journal Articles

The relationship between low back magnetic resonance imaging, surgery, and spending: Impact of physician self-referral status

Health Services Research, 2011

Working Papers

Brief cognitive-behavioral intervention for maternal depression and trauma in the neonatal intensive care unit: A pilot study

Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2011

Journal Articles

Multi-Country, Longitudinal Analysis of Palm Oil Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality for Countries at Different Stages of Economic Development

Globalization and Health, 2011

Journal Articles

Multi-Country Analysis of Palm Oil Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality for Countries at Different Stages of Economic Development: 1980-1997

Globalization and Health, 2011

Books

Sourcebook Volume 1–Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration: Sociodemographic Characteristics and Use of VHA Care

Washington, DC : Women Veterans Health Stragetic Health Care Group, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, 2011

Journal Articles

Comparative Analysis of Old-Age Mortality Estimations in Africa

PLoS ONE, 2011

Books

Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

Journal Articles

Anaemia among students of rural China's elementary schools: Prevalence and correlates in Ningxia and Qinghai's poor counties

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011

Journal Articles

United States Aid Policy and Induced Abortion in sub-Saharan Africa

Bulletin of the World Health Organization (published online), 2011

Journal Articles

Characterization of circulating HIV-1 env genes in plasma of two antiretroviral naïve slow progressing patients with broad neutralizing antibody response with evidence of recombination

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 2011

Journal Articles

Why health care process performance measures can have different relationships to outcomes for patients and hospitals: Understanding the ecological fallacy.

American Journal of Public Health, 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

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

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

The relationship between low back magnetic resonance imaging, surgery, and spending: Impact of physician self-referral status

Quantitative genetic analysis reveals trade-offs between age at first reproduction and fertility

REM-related bradyarrhythmia syndrome

Clinical characteristics of children receiving antipsychotic medication

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

Brief cognitive-behavioral intervention for maternal depression and trauma in the neonatal intensive care unit: A pilot study

Multi-Country, Longitudinal Analysis of Palm Oil Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality for Countries at Different Stages of Economic Development

Multi-Country Analysis of Palm Oil Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality for Countries at Different Stages of Economic Development: 1980-1997

Sourcebook Volume 1–Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration: Sociodemographic Characteristics and Use of VHA Care

Comparative Analysis of Old-Age Mortality Estimations in Africa

Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America.

Anaemia among students of rural China's elementary schools: Prevalence and correlates in Ningxia and Qinghai's poor counties

United States Aid Policy and Induced Abortion in sub-Saharan Africa

Characterization of circulating HIV-1 env genes in plasma of two antiretroviral naïve slow progressing patients with broad neutralizing antibody response with evidence of recombination

Why health care process performance measures can have different relationships to outcomes for patients and hospitals: Understanding the ecological fallacy.

Evaluating Child Welfare Policies with Decision-Analytic Simulation Models

The business case for quality improvement: oral anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation

Building Academic Health Centers' Capacity to Shape and Respond to CER Policy

Genetic Conservation in gp36 Transmembrane Sequences of Indian HIV Type 2 Isolates

Effects of rural status on health outcomes in pediatric liver transplantation: a single center analysis of 388 patients.

Systematic Review: Benefits and Harms of In-Hospital Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa for Off-Label Indications

Cost-effectiveness of a Modestly Effective HIV Vaccine in the United States

The use of Omegaven in treating parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease.