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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

Overexpression of miR-145 in U87 cells reduces glioma cell malignant phenotype and promotes survival after in vivo implantation

International Journal of Oncology, 2014

Journal Articles

Utilization Trends of Anti-TNF Agents and Health Outcomes in Adults and Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Single-center Experience

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2014

Working Papers

Will Divestment from Employment-Based Health Insurance Save Employers Money? The Case of State and Local Governments

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2014

Journal Articles

Care Coordination Atlas Version 4 (Prepared by Stanford University under subcontract to American Institutes for Research on Contract No. HHSA290-2010-00005I)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2014

Journal Articles

What is Care Coordination?

International Journal of Coordination Care, 2014

Journal Articles

Infrastructure and contamination of the physical environment in three Bangladeshi hospitals: putting infection control into context

PLoS One, 2014

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Measuring Fecal Calprotectin in Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Adults and Children

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2014

Journal Articles

Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2013

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

Hospital readmission rates and emergency department visits for mental health and substance abuse conditions.

Modeling and Calibration for Exposure to Time-Varying, Modifiable Risk Factors: The Example of Smoking Behavior in India

Patient and Family Access to Electronic Health Records: A Key Ingredient for a Pediatric Learning Health System

The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development

Family Planning Program Effects: A Review of Evidence from Microdata

Body weight of Italians: the weight of Education

Overexpression of miR-145 in U87 cells reduces glioma cell malignant phenotype and promotes survival after in vivo implantation

An Exploration of China's Mortality Decline under Mao: A Provincial Analysis, 1950-1980

Rethinking the development of Ebola treatments

The Stanford-India Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) Study: Early Findings

Follow-up encounters within 30 days of a substance abuse-related inpatient discharge.

Misdiagnosis of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Phenotype in an Infant with CMV Infection and Liver Failure

Characteristics and direct costs of academic pediatric subspecialty outpatient no-show events

Utilization Trends of Anti-TNF Agents and Health Outcomes in Adults and Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Single-center Experience

Will Divestment from Employment-Based Health Insurance Save Employers Money? The Case of State and Local Governments

Care Coordination Atlas Version 4 (Prepared by Stanford University under subcontract to American Institutes for Research on Contract No. HHSA290-2010-00005I)

What is Care Coordination?

Infrastructure and contamination of the physical environment in three Bangladeshi hospitals: putting infection control into context

Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Measuring Fecal Calprotectin in Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Adults and Children

Impact of Including Readmissions for Qualifying Events in the Patient Safety Indicators

Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science. Summary Report

The life cycle of bare branch families-A simulation study

Energy and resource efficiency as a unifying principle for human, environmental and global health

A systematic review of the care coordination measurement landscape

Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States