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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

Rosiglitazone Increased Heart failure But Did Not Differ from Metformin Plus Sulfonylurea for Other CV Outcomes at Interim Analysis

American College of Physicians Journal Club, 2007

Journal Articles

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

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

Regression to the Mean in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Research

The Relationship of Immigrant Status with Access, Utilization, and Health Status for Children with Asthma

The Future Pediatrician: The Challenge of Chronic Illness

Rosiglitazone Increased Heart failure But Did Not Differ from Metformin Plus Sulfonylurea for Other CV Outcomes at Interim Analysis

Modeling human papillomavirus and cervical cancer in the United States for analyses of screening and vaccination

Validation of Two Models to Estimate the Probability of Malignancy in Patients with Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

CoPlot: A Tool for Visualizing Multivariate Data in Medicine

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Fall 2007 Issue

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Improving Medicare Coverage of Psychological Services for Older Americans

Gender and Use of Care: Planning for Tomorrow's Veterans Health Administration

Women's Awareness and Knowledge of Hormone Therapy Post-Women's Health Initiative

Use and Outcomes of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection for Non-Male Factor Infertility

Association of Antihypertensive Therapy and Diastolic Hypotension in Chronic Kidney Disease

Inhalational, Gastrointestinal, and Cutaneous Anthrax in Children: A Systematic Review of Cases: 1900 to 2005

International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing for End-Stage Renal Disease in France

Rise of Pay for Performance: Implications for Care of People with Chronic Kidney Disease

Improving Patient Care by Linking Evidence-based Medicine and Evidence-based Management

Critical Factors in Case Management: Practical Lessons from a Cardiac Case Management Program

Asthma Control, Severity, and Quality of Life: Quantifying the Effect of Uncontrolled Disease

Evidence on Early-Life Income and Late-Life Health from America's Dust Bowl Era

Changes in Hospital Mortality Associated with Residency Work-Hour Regulations

Electronic Health Record Use and the Auality of Ambulatory Care in the United States

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Summer 2007 Issue

Cost-effectiveness of HPV 16, 18 Vaccination in Brazil