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

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

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

Academic Pediatrics, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Quality improvement strategies for children with asthma: A systematic review

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

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

Estimation of the warfarin dose with clinical and pharmacogenetic data.

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

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

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

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

Market evidence of misperceived mortality risk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Newborns for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity

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

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

Improving structure-based function prediction using molecular dynamics.