Stanford Health Policy is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Department of Medicine
Scholarly Publications
Anesthesia Care Team Composition and Surgical Outcomes
August 2018
The adjusted mortality for care teams with anesthesiologist assistants was 1.6% (95% CI, 1.4 to 1.8) versus 1.7% for care teams with nurse anesthetists (95% CI, 1.7 to 1.7; difference −0.08; 95% CI...
The fog of development: evaluating the Millennium Villages Project
August 2018
Shira Mitchell and colleagues' endline evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in The Lancet Global Health marks an important chapter in our understanding of Africa’s meandering path...
Cost Effectiveness of Radiation and Chemotherapy for High-Risk Low Grade Glioma
August 2018
The standard of care treatment for maximally resected, high risk (≥ 40 years old or sub-totally resected) low grade glioma (LGG) patients was established by RTOG 9802, which showed an overall...
Other Publications
Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform
March 2017
Medical malpractice reform appears to be back on the federal policy agenda.
The Grand Divergence in Global Child Health: Confronting Data Requirements in Areas of Conflict and Chronic Political Instability
March 2016
There is something deeply troubling about a death that goes unnoticed.
Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California
July 2015
Stanford Health Policy's David Studdert and Michelle Mello discuss SB 277, a new California law that ends exceptions to vaccination mandates based on religious and philosophical beliefs, leaving...
News
Legal US immigrants may be scared to sign up for benefits
August 2018
The Trump administration's immigration crackdown may be leading to an unintended consequence: a drop-off in benefits enrollment among legal Hispanic immigrants, according to new research by...
A better way to measure progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals
July 2018
A new calculation that combines health and economic well-being at the population level could help to better measure progress toward the U.N.
More racial diversity among physicians would lead to better health among black men, research shows
July 2018
African-American doctors could help reduce cardiovascular mortality among black men by 19 percent — if there was more racial diversity among physicians, according to a new study led by Stanford...
Events
RIP: Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland with Marcella Alsan
August 8, 2018
Does Diversity Matter for Health?
Victor Fuchs' Book Launch: Health Economics and Policy
May 15, 2018
Health Economics and Policy by Victor FuchsWith Introductions by Douglas K. Owens and Stanford Dean of Medicine Lloyd B.
RIP: Humanitarians in Crisis: Lessons from the Battle for Mosul, Iraq with Paul Wise
April 24, 2018
Humanitarians in Crisis: Lessons from the Battle for Mosul, IraqThe Battle of Mosul was one of the largest urban sieges since World War II.
Projects
Pigs and Parasites: Developing Interventions to End Cycles of Poverty Caused by Taenia solium and Neurocysticercosis
Neurocysticercosis is a neglected infectious disease caused by larval forms of the pig tapeworm, Taenia solium, infecting people's brains.
English
Reducing lead exposure among residents of Bangladesh
Lead is a potent neurotoxin that irreversibly impairs child cognitive development.
English
Children in Crisis
Improving the Provision of Human Services in Areas of Conflict, Political Instability and Weak Governance
English
Multimedia
Grant Miller: The team approach to international heatlh
January 2016
Grant Miller, associate professor of medicine, has been working to help residents of a state in India access micro nutrients that they are lacking.
Jay Bhattacharya discusses health and aging
September 2015
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of Medicine and a CHP/PCOR core faculty member, speaks about the Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA).
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