Stanford Health Policy is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford School of Medicine
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Scholarly Publications
Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-speaking parents of young children: Validation of the Spanish parental health literacy activities test (PHLAT Spanish)
December 2012
Objective: To assess the health literacy and numeracy skills of Spanish-speaking parents of young children and to validate a new Spanish language health literacy assessment for parents, the Spanish...
Other Publications
Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
June 2010
Objectives: Emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly proposed as high-yield venues for providing preventive health education to a population at risk for unhealthy behaviors and unmet primary...
What Questions do Patients Undergoing Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Surgery Have
June 2003
BACKGROUND: The value of the Internet to deliver preoperative education would increase if there was variability in questions patients want answered.
News
Education gap widens among adolescent boys and girls in low-income countries when younger siblings home sick
June 2017
Stanford Health Policy’s Marcella Alsan argues in a new study in the journal Pediatrics, that identifying contributors to education disparities and making investments in early childhood health...
Old Events
Why the United States Spends So Much More on Health Care than Other Countries: Economic, Institutional and Political Perspectives
June 5, 2014
Abstract: The United States spends over 17 percent of GDP on health care; the next six highest countries spend over 11 percent.
Projects
Age related changes in fronto-striatal connections underlying intertemporal choice
Previous research has produced highly conflicting results on differences in intertemporal preferences with age.
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Can health coaches improve decision making for elderly with cancer?
Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States and disproportionately affects elderly patient populations.
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Elder-care, Gender, and Son Preference: The Role of Cultural Transmission and Diffusion During the Process of Rural-urban Migration in China
A research report, “A survey of rural-urban migrants in Shenzhen, China”, based on findings from this project, was submitted to the Shenzhen government in December of 2005. Since then, the Santa...
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