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Global Health

Interdisciplinary research on global health problems through the lenses of economics, nutrition and politics.

Research Spotlight

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Tackling the Health of Women and Children in Global Conflict Settings

A new four-paper series in The Lancet exposes the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women’s and children’s health. Stanford researchers, including SHP's Paul Wise and Eran Bendavid, have joined other academics and health-care experts in calling for an international commitment from humanitarian actors and donors to confront political and security challenges.

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Ethics and Governance of Digital Epidemiology

Many countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to COVID-19. Focusing on core public health functions of case detection, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine, the authors explore ethical concerns raised by digital technologies and new data sources in public health surveillance during epidemics.

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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

African-American men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States and live on average 4.5 fewer years than non-Hispanic white men. This paper finds that the mortality disparity is partly related to underutilized preventive healthcare services.

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Featured Scholars

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Michelle Mello

Professor of Medicine

Professor of Law

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Doug Owens

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor of Medicine

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Maya Rossin-Slater

Assistant Professor, Medicine

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Paul Wise

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor of Child Health and Society

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Publications

Books

Journal of Korean Studies, volume 9

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2004

Journal Articles

How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004

Working Papers

Enlargement Strategy and its Progeny, The

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

A systematic review of the economic burden of chronic angina

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American Journal of Managed Care, 2004

Newsletters

Encina Columns Fall 2004

Stanford IIS, 2004

Working Papers

European Neighbourhood Policy: Legal and Institutional Issues, The

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Teaching About Nuclear Weapons

Physics and Society, 2004

Journal Articles

The Quality of a Democracy: An Overview

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Journal of Democracy, 2004

Journal Articles

Detecting Nuclear Material in International Container Shipping: Criteria for Secure Systems

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Journal of Physical Security, 2004

Testimonies

Disrupting Terrorist Travel: Safeguarding America's Borders Through Information Sharing

U.S. House of Representatives, 2004

Journal Articles

Cost-related Medication Underuse: Do Patients with Chronic Illnesses Tell their Doctors?

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Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004

Books

After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition

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Cambridge University Press, 2004

Journal Articles

What Went Wrong in Iraq?

Foreign Affairs, 2004

Journal Articles

Consumers' Use of the Internet for Health Insurance

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American Journal of Managed Care, 2004

Working Papers

Quantifying Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Reestablishing the Judicial System in Afghanistan

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

The Quality of Democracy

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Race/Ethnicity and Patient Satisfaction: Using the Appropriate Method to Test for Perceived Differences in Care

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2004

Journal Articles

Transformation Of Child Health In The United States, The

Health Affairs, 2004

Journal Articles

Misunderestimating Terrorism

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Foreign Affairs, 2004

Journal Articles

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004

Working Papers

South Asia and the Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

CISAC, 2004

Working Papers

Sovereignty Relinquished: Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Equality and Difference: Regional Courts and Women's Human Rights

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview and Methodology

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004