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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

Coarse-grained modeling of large RNA molecules with knowledge-based potentials and structural filters

RNA, 2009

Journal Articles

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

JAIDS, 2009

Journal Articles

Switch from enfuvirtide to raltegravir in virologically suppressed HIV-1 infected patients: Effects on level of residual viremia and quality of life

Journal of Clinical Virology, 2009

Journal Articles

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

Academic Pediatrics, 2009

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 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

Coarse-grained modeling of large RNA molecules with knowledge-based potentials and structural filters

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

Improving structure-based function prediction using molecular dynamics.

Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain

Ability of expert physicians to structure clinical guidelines: Reality versus perception

Health literacy and child health promotion: Implications for research, clinical care, and public policy

Switch from enfuvirtide to raltegravir in virologically suppressed HIV-1 infected patients: Effects on level of residual viremia and quality of life

Quality improvement strategies for children with asthma: A systematic review

Relationship of safety climate and safety performance in hospitals

Generating genome-scale candidate gene lists for pharmacogenomics.

Intergenerational support and subjective health of older people in rural China: a gender-based longitudinal study

Effects of Mammography Screening Under Different Screening Schedules: Model Estimates of Potential Benefits and Harms

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

The health literacy of parents in the united states: A nationally representative study

Saving for the future self: neural measures of future self-continuity predict temporal discounting

Payment Reform for Safety-Net Institutions - Improving Quality and Outcomes

Optimal Investment in HIV Prevention Programs: More Is Not Always Better

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Newborns for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: failure is not an option.

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

Editorial: Health Services Research in 2020: An Assessment of the Field's Workforce Needs.

Disparities in Trauma Center Access Despite Increasing Utilization: Data From California, 1999 to 2006

A Public Health Approach to Children's Mental Health Services: Possible Solutions to Current Service Inadequacies