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

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

Implementation Science, 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

The Relation of Price of Antiretroviral Drugs and Foreign Assistance with Coverage of HIV Treatment in Africa: Retrospective Study

BMJ, 2010

Working Papers

Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission

AIDS and behavior, 2010

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

Science as superstition: selecting medical students

Birth Registration in China: Practices, Problems and Policies

Longitudinal assessment of manic symptoms (LAMS) study: Background, design, and initial screening results

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

Characteristics of children with elevated symptoms of mania: The longitudinal assessment of manic symptoms (LAMS) study

Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen

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

Estimating Lost Revenue from a Free-Care Mandate in VA

The effects of competition on assisted reproductive technology outcomes

The Cost Effectiveness and Population Outcomes of Expanded HIV Screening and Antiretroviral Treatment in the United States

Cost Effectiveness of Genetic Eesting in Family Members of Patients with Long QT Syndrome

Exfoliative rejection in intestinal transplantation.

Broadening the Scope of Nursing Practice

Defining and Measuring Successful Emergency Care Networks: A Research Agenda

The Relation of Price of Antiretroviral Drugs and Foreign Assistance with Coverage of HIV Treatment in Africa: Retrospective Study

Natural Language Processing for Lines and Devices in Portable Chest X-Rays

Quantifying Child Mortality Reductions Related to Measles Vaccination

Cost-Effectiveness of Dabigatran Compared With Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation

National Survey of Preventive Health Services in US Emergency Departments

Association between state Medicaid reimbursements and child influenza vaccination rate

The efficiency frontier approach to economic evaluation of health care interventions

Effects of Mass Media Coverage on Timing and Annual Receipt of Influenza Vaccination among Medicare Elderly

Child Health Policy: Where Are You When We Need You?

The role of costs in comparative effectiveness research

Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission