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

Intergenerational support and self-rated health of the elderly in rural China. In: D. Yi, D. Poston and J. Smith (Eds).

Healthy Longevity in China, 2008

Journal Articles

Adverse Medical Outcomes of Early Newborn Screening Programs for Phenylketonuria

Pediatrics, 2008

Journal Articles

The cost-effectiveness of counseling strategies to improve adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among men who have sex with men

Medical Decision Making, 2008

Journal Articles

Coronary Heart Disease Among Diabetic and Nondiabetic People: Socioeconomic Differences in Incidence, Prognosis and Mortality

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complication, 2008

Journal Articles

Colonoscopy Appropriateness: Education is Important to Identify the Right Patient, at the Right Time, for the Right Reason

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2008

Journal Articles

Are primary care physicians, public and private sector specialists substitutes or complements? Evidence from a simultaneous equations model for count data

Journal of Health Economics, 2008

Journal Articles

Simple counts of ADL dependencies do not adequately reflect older adults' preferences toward states of functional impairment.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2008

Journal Articles

Controlling Co-epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics

Operations Research, 2008

Journal Articles

Using Second-Generation Antidepressants to Treat Depressive Disorders: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008

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

Intergenerational support and self-rated health of the elderly in rural China. In: D. Yi, D. Poston and J. Smith (Eds).

Adverse Medical Outcomes of Early Newborn Screening Programs for Phenylketonuria

The cost-effectiveness of counseling strategies to improve adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among men who have sex with men

Coronary Heart Disease Among Diabetic and Nondiabetic People: Socioeconomic Differences in Incidence, Prognosis and Mortality

Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice

An Intervention to Decrease Narcotic Related Adverse Drug Events in Children's Hospitals

Evaluation of Universal Screening for Military-related Sexual Trauma

Decreasing reimbursements for outpatient emergency department visits across payer groups from 1996 to 2004

Cost Effectiveness of HIV Screening in the Elderly

The immigration and health paradox: Obesity in multiethnic young children

Colonoscopy Appropriateness: Education is Important to Identify the Right Patient, at the Right Time, for the Right Reason

Efforts to expand physician supply deserve scrutiny

Finding Blunders in Thyroid Testing: Experience in Newborns

Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking

Are primary care physicians, public and private sector specialists substitutes or complements? Evidence from a simultaneous equations model for count data

Intensity of Renal Support in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Prioritizing Future Research on Off-label Prescribing: Results of a Quantitative Evaluation

Job Satisfaction and Motivation Among Physicians in Academic Medical Centers: Insights from a Cross-national Study

Variability in Pediatric Utilization of Trauma Facilities in California: 1999 to 2005

Simple counts of ADL dependencies do not adequately reflect older adults' preferences toward states of functional impairment.

Controlling Co-epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics

Using Second-Generation Antidepressants to Treat Depressive Disorders: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians

Expanded Use of Imaging Technology and the Challenge of Measuring Value

Patient Safety Climate in US hospitals: Variation by Management Level

Transforming Preconceptional, Prenatal, and Interconceptional Care into a Comprehensive Commitment to Women's Health