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

Health outcomes and costs of community mitigation strategies for an influenza pandemic in the United States.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2010

Journal Articles

Characteristics of Pediatric Trauma Transfers to a Level I Trauma Center: Implications for Developing a Regionalized Pediatric Trauma System in California

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Policies and Politics for an Aging America

Contexts, 2010

Working Papers

A Collection of Articles on U.S. Health Reform

SIEPR, 2010

Journal Articles

Preferences for dialysis withdrawal and engagement in advance care planning within a diverse sample of dialysis patients.

Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplant, 2010

Journal Articles

The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: A case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks

Health Economics, 2009

Journal Articles

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

Health outcomes and costs of community mitigation strategies for an influenza pandemic in the United States.

Characteristics of Pediatric Trauma Transfers to a Level I Trauma Center: Implications for Developing a Regionalized Pediatric Trauma System in California

Policies and Politics for an Aging America

A Collection of Articles on U.S. Health Reform

Preferences for dialysis withdrawal and engagement in advance care planning within a diverse sample of dialysis patients.

Repeat Coronary Revascularization Procedures after Successful Bare-Metal or Drug-Eluting Stent Implantations

Tuberculosis in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data

The role of parent health literacy among urban children with persistent asthma

The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity

CABG versus PCI for multivessel coronary artery disease - authors' reply

Patient safety climate in 92 us hospitals differences by work area and discipline

Estimation of the warfarin dose with clinical and pharmacogenetic data.

Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting

Can an Infectious Disease Genomics Project ‘Predict and Prevent’ the next Pandemic?

Parental misinterpretations of over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medication labels

Program spending to increase adherence: South african cervical cancer screening.

The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: A case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks

Do markets respond to quality information? the case of fertility clinics

Is Anyone Too Old for an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator?

Community structure detecting algorithm for dynamic networks based on modularity (In Chinese.)

Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence From a Natural Experiment.

Mycobacterial tuberculosis infection in transplant recipients, early diagnosis and treatment of resistant tuberculosis

Pediatricians and health literacy: Descriptive results from a national survey

Market evidence of misperceived mortality risk

Can physicians structure clinical guidelines? experiments with a mark-up-process methodology