Featured Publications

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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

Can State Early Intervention Programs Meet the Increased Demand of Children Suspected of Having Autism Spectrum Disorders?

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2010

Journal Articles

The cost-effectiveness and population outcomes of expanded HIV screening and antiretroviral treatment in the united states

Annals of Internal Medicine,, 2010

Journal Articles

Designing an automated clinical decision support system to match clinical practice guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain

Implementation Science, 2010

Journal Articles

Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen

JCOM, 2010

Journal Articles

The relationship between HIV testing, stigma, and health service usage

AIDS Care, 2010

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

Cyclicality, Mortality, and the Value of Time: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child Survival in Colombia

Acquisition of MRI equipment by doctors drives up imaging use and spending

The Potential Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on U.S. Health Care Expenditures

Tularemia presenting as a cervical abscess

Can State Early Intervention Programs Meet the Increased Demand of Children Suspected of Having Autism Spectrum Disorders?

Floating choices: a generational perspective on intentions of rural-urban migrants in China

No follow-up after positive newborn screening: Medical neglect?

Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking

Health, occupational and environmental risks of emancipated migrant farmworker youth

Cost effectiveness of nationwide Hepatitis B catch-up vaccination among children and adolescents in China

The effects of offering health plan choice within employment-based purchasing groups

Using policy to increase prescribing of smoking cessation medications in VA

Science as superstition: selecting medical students

Surgical options for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

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

Historical trends in low birth weight: Commentary

Evaluating permanent disability ratings using empirical data on earnings losses

The cost-effectiveness and population outcomes of expanded HIV screening and antiretroviral treatment in the united states

Health Outcomes and Costs of Community Mitigation Strategies for an Influenza Pandemic in the United States

HMO coverage reduces variations in the use of health care among patients under age sixty-five

Locating Prescriptions in Pharmacy Databases

Assessing cost-effectiveness and value as imaging grows: The case of carotid artery CT

Designing an automated clinical decision support system to match clinical practice guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain

Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen

The relationship between HIV testing, stigma, and health service usage