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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Books

"If You Have The Flu Symptoms, Your Asymptomatic Spouse May Better Answer The Willingness-to-pay Question": Evidence From A Double-bounded Dichotomous Choice Model with Heterogeneous Anchoring

Journal of Health Economics, 2009

Working Papers

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?

National Bureau of Economic Research working paper series, 2009

Journal Articles

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

Academic Pediatrics, 2009

Journal Articles

Recommendations for Modeling Disaster Responses in Public Health and Medicine: A Position Paper of the Society for Medical Decision Making

Medical Decision Making, 2009

Journal Articles

Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Immigrant Status is Related to Health Care Access, Health Care Utilization, and Health Status

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2009

Journal Articles

Multicenter Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Chronic Stroke: Methods and Entry Characteristics for VA ROBOTICS

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2009

Working Papers

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

Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence When Comparing Medical Interventions

Comparing Safety Climate Between Two Populations of Hospitals in the United States

Potential Population Health Outcomes and Expenditures of HIV Vaccination Strategies in the United States

Department of Medicine Newsletter Summer 2009

"If You Have The Flu Symptoms, Your Asymptomatic Spouse May Better Answer The Willingness-to-pay Question": Evidence From A Double-bounded Dichotomous Choice Model with Heterogeneous Anchoring

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?

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

Evaluating the Surgery Literature: Can Standardizing Peer-review Today Predict Manuscript Impact Tomorrow?

Dialysis: Phosphorus Binders and Survival: Need for Randomized Trials.

Beyond the Public Plan: Pathway to Control Costs & Transform the Delivery System

Recommendations for Modeling Disaster Responses in Public Health and Medicine: A Position Paper of the Society for Medical Decision Making

Quality-Based Payment for Medical Groups and Individual Physicians.

Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization

The Concurrent Validity and Responsiveness of the Health Utilities Index (HUI 3) Among Patients with Advanced HIV/AIDS

Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Immigrant Status is Related to Health Care Access, Health Care Utilization, and Health Status

Multicenter Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Chronic Stroke: Methods and Entry Characteristics for VA ROBOTICS

A Randomized Trial of Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease

Quality Improvement Strategies for Children With Asthma

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving

Parent Involvement Is Associated With Early Success in Obesity Treatment

Regionalization and Mortality in Neonatal Intensive Care

The Proposed Government Health Insurance Company -- No Substitute for Real Reform

Early-Onset Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Diagnostic Issues

Cost Implications of Reduced Work Hours and Workloads for Resident Physicians

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa: An Evaluation of Outcomes