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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

Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study.

Lancet Neurol, 2006

Journal Articles

Use of Declarative Statements in Creating and Maintaining Computer-Interpretable Knowledge Bases for Guideline-Based Care

AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2006

Journal Articles

Changes in Antihypertensive Prescribing During US Outpatient Visits for Uncomplicated Hypertension Between 1993 and 2004

Hypertension, 2006

Journal Articles

Quality-of-Care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process

Pediatrics, 2006

Journal Articles

An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006

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

When in doubt should we cut it out? The role of surgery in non-small-cell lung cancer

The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Definition of Metabolic Syndrome in Preadolescent Girls

Brief Report: Utility of a Short Screening Scale for DSM-IV PTSD in Primary Care

Task Analysis of Writing Hospital Admission Orders: Evidence of a Problem-Based Approach

Validation of the Blood Quininium Resin Test for Assessing Gastric Hypochlorhydria

Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study.

Breakfast of champions? the school breakfast program and the nutrition of children and families

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiretroviral Therapy in St. Petersburg, Russia

Evaluating Detection of an Inhalational Anthrax Outbreak

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd Edition

Use of Declarative Statements in Creating and Maintaining Computer-Interpretable Knowledge Bases for Guideline-Based Care

Changes in Antihypertensive Prescribing During US Outpatient Visits for Uncomplicated Hypertension Between 1993 and 2004

Quality-of-Care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process

Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future

Marriage form and fertility in rural China: an investigation in three counties

The Effect of Opening Mid-Level NICUS on the Location of Low-Birthweight Births in California

An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations

Identifying Barriers to Hypertension Guideline Adherence Using Clinician Feedback at the Point of Care

Investigation of Mediastinitis Due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci After Cardiothoracic Surgery

Massive cavitary pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in a patient with HIV

Does medicare benefit the poor?

Does Children's Screen Time Predict Requests for Advertised Products? Cross-Sectional and Prospective Analyses

Self-Efficacy, Therapeutic Alliance, and Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Outcomes

Knowledge-Based Method for Building Patient Decision-Analytic Tools