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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

Conceptual Model for Evaluating Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response, A

Medical Decision Making, 2004

Journal Articles

Cost-effectiveness of screening with B-type natriuretic peptide to identify patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2004

Working Papers

Health Insurance Status, Medication Self-restriction Due to Cost, and Outcomes Among Diabetes Patients in Three Systems of Care

Medical Care, 2004

Journal Articles

Are Gatekeeper Requirements Associated with Cancer Screening Utilization?

Health Services Research, 2004

Journal Articles

Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Health Services Research, 2004

Journal Articles

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

Trends in inpatient treatment intensity among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2004

Amygdala Responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger Adults

Conceptual Model for Evaluating Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response, A

Cost-effectiveness of screening with B-type natriuretic peptide to identify patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction

Catalog of dermatology utilities: a measure of the burden of skin diseases, A

Role of Motivation in the Age-Related Positivity Effect in Autobiographical Memory, The

Current trends in outpatient pharmacy in VA specialized mental health treatment

Market forces and efficient health care systems

Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice

Treadmill Scores in Elderly Men

Impact of tricuspid regurgitation on long-term survival

Costs of decedents in the Medicare program: implications for payments to Medicare + Choice plans, The

Do Health Plans Influence Quality of Care?

Health Insurance Status, Medication Self-restriction Due to Cost, and Outcomes Among Diabetes Patients in Three Systems of Care

Are Gatekeeper Requirements Associated with Cancer Screening Utilization?

Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Problems paying out-of-pocket medication costs among older adults with diabetes

Time to Listen (commentary), A

National trends in antiarrhythmic and antithrombotic medication use in atrial fibrillation

Impact of Clinical Trial Results on National Trends in Alpha-Blocker Prescribing, 1996-2002

National Use of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: Annual Trends and Response to Recent Evidence

Within-Year Variation in Hospital Utilization and Its Implications for Hospital Costs

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2004

Evaluating Detection and Diagnostic Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Response