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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Publications

Journal Articles

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being?

America Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017

Journal Articles

Development and Validation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures of Potentially Preventable Emergency Department (ED) Visits: The ED Prevention Quality Indicators for General Health Conditions

Health Services Research, 2017

Working Papers

Municipal Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexico’s Programa Agua Limpia

National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017

Working Papers

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India

2017

Commentary

Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017

Journal Articles

Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2016

Journal Articles

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: Communicating Nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health, 2016

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

Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology To Teach Around Taboos

Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao

Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being?

Development and Validation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures of Potentially Preventable Emergency Department (ED) Visits: The ED Prevention Quality Indicators for General Health Conditions

Municipal Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexico’s Programa Agua Limpia

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India

Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform

Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy

Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India

Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India

The Epidemiologic Challenge to the Conduct of Just War: Confronting Indirect Civilian Casualties of War

Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Breast density notification legislation and breast cancer stage at diagnosis: early evidence from the SEER registry

Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Prevalence and Predictors of Malnutrition among Guatemalan Children at 2 Years of Age

Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis

Association of a Bundled-Payment Program With Cost and Outcomes in Full-Cycle Breast Cancer Care

Geographic variation in surgical outcomes and cost between the United States and Japan

Cost-effectiveness of improvements in diagnosis and treatment accessibility for tuberculosis control in India

Predicting inpatient clinical order patterns with probabilistic topic models vs conventional order sets

The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women's resilience to socio-economic disadvantage

Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: Communicating Nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh