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Scholarly Publications

Hospital Choice in Japan

September 1995

Author(s): 
William B. Vogt, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Aki Yoshikawa, Toshitaka Nakahara
We use newly released data on Japanese hospitals to explore patients’ perceptions of hospital quality, the implications of these assessments for the structure of demand for hospital care, and the...

Medical Ivory Towers and the High Cost of Health Care: A Comparison of Teaching Hospitals in the United States and Japan

January 1993

Author(s): 
Matthew Holt, Koichi B. Ishikawa, Shigekoto Kaihara, Aki Yoshikawa, David S. P. Hopkins, Margaret Mason, Mari Shimizu

Surgical Volumes and Operating Room Efficiency in Stanford University and Tokyo University Hospitals

January 1996

Author(s): 
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Scott Kupor, William Vogt, Annie Woo, Linda Slezak, Diane Christ, David Hopkins, Blackford Middleton, Blackford Middleton, Yumiko Nishimura
One of the most persistent and important questions in international comparisons of health systems pertains to the wide divergence in costs between countries.
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Other Publications

Impact of Public Policy on California County Hospitals, The

December 1991

Author(s): 
Paul G. Barnett, JE Midtling

Biological Security in a Changed World

September 2001

Author(s): 
Christopher F. Chyba
The horrifying events of 11 September 2001 serve notice that civilization will confront severe challenges in the twenty-first century.

Microbe Warfare Hides the Enemy

August 2001

Author(s): 
Christopher F. Chyba
STANFORD, Calif.- For the past seven years, the United States has been negotiating a verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, hoping to put teeth into the convention's...
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News

Eden wins award for book on government's failure to predict nuclear fire damage

August 2004

Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, by CISAC associate director for research Lynn Eden, received the 2004 Robert K.

Censoring science won't make us any safer

June 2005

Recent government efforts to prevent publication of scientific research that might prove helpful to terrorists "may sound reasonable," says CISAC Fellow Laura Donohue, but censoring science is more...

From "cow to consumer," milk supply needs better security, says Wein

May 2005

Milk processing is just as susceptible to terrorism as chemical production, yet the nation's milk supplies are far more vulnerable because many security measures are voluntary, CISAC faculty member...
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Old Events

Panel Discussion: Hurricane Katrina and Homeland Security: What are the Connections and Research Implications?

October 27, 2005

Lynn Eden is associate director for research/senior research scholar at CISAC. Eden received her Ph.D.

Treating Tuberculosis in North Korea: NGO Humanitarian Aid and US-DPRK Reconciliation

April 19, 2007

Dr. Linton was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and grew up in Korea, where his father was a third generation Presbyterian missionary.

China's Harmonious Society: Two Overviews--Health Systems Reform and the HIV Epidemic

January 25, 2008

China's Harmonious Society colloquium seriesco-sponsored by the Stanford China Program and the Center for East Asian Studies Since 2006, the official doctrine of China's Communist Party calls for...
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Multimedia

Information, Development, and Life-course Smoking Pattern in Mainland China and Taiwan over 50 Years

August 2016

Audio, transcript and presentation from the Asia Health Policy Program seminar "Information, Development, and Life-course Smoking Pattern in Mainland China and Taiwan over 50 Years" on Jan.

The Impact of Taiwan's National Health Insurance's 20-year Journey: How has the market responded and will respond?

September 2016

Audio and transcript from the Asia Health Policy Program seminar, "The Impact of Taiwan's National Health Insurance's 20-year Journey: How has the market responded and will respond?" on April 19, 2016, with Karen Eggleston,  Jui-fen Rachel Lu and...

Cognitive Decline and Household Financial Outcomes at Older Ages

May 2017

Video and transcript from the presentation, "Cognitive Decline and Household Financial Outcomes at Older Ages," on April 24, 2017, by Marco Angrisani, an economist at the University of Southern California, followed by discussion led by Kathleen...
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People

karen 0320 cropprd Karen Eggleston Senior Fellow
lanhee chen 2017 headshot reduced size Lanhee J. Chen Affiliate, CDDRL David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution, Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer, Public Policy Program
Bonica Pic Adam Bonica Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL Associate Professor, Political Science
Aytuğ Pic Aytuğ Şaşmaz Postdoctoral Scholar, CDDRL