Featured Publications

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

Wanting to Maximize the Positive and Minimize the Negative: Implications for Affective experience in American and Chinese Contexts

Under review, 2013

Journal Articles

Subjective Well-Being and Retirement: Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2012

Journal Articles

Geographical Rural Status and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of 6 Years of National United Network of Organ Sharing Data.

J Pediatr, 2012

Journal Articles

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012

Journal Articles

Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality, 2012

Journal Articles

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2012

Journal Articles

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

PLoS Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

Dig Dis Sci, 2012

Journal Articles

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

Oxford University Press, 2012

Journal Articles

A modeled analysis of telehealth methods for treating pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2012

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

The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladesh

"Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low-and Middle-Income Country Health Programs," in Tony Cuyler (ed.)

Cause of the Failure of Government Financial Subsidy for Public Hospitals and Suggestions for Reform

Effects of Government Health Spending on Rural Residents’ Health

Wanting to Maximize the Positive and Minimize the Negative: Implications for Affective experience in American and Chinese Contexts

Subjective Well-Being and Retirement: Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Geographical Rural Status and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of 6 Years of National United Network of Organ Sharing Data.

Development of Quality Indicators for Home and Community-Based Services Population: Technical Report

Optimal link removal for epidemic mitigation: A two-way partitioning approach

Determinants of Adverse Events in Vascular Surgery

Screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis in prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Balancing immunological benefits and cardiovascular risks of antiretroviral therapy: When is immediate treatment optimal?

Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Estimates of missing women in twentieth century China

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada

Optimal Screening Policies for Childhood Obesity

Accounting for Biases When Linking Empirical Studies and Simulation Models

Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Health Centers

Decision making for HIV prevention and treatment scale up: Bridging the gap between theory and practice

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt. Edited by Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, Charles Jordan Tabb

A modeled analysis of telehealth methods for treating pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury