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David U. Himmelstein is affiliated with City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans health professions, medicine, and economics, focusing primarily on healthcare policy and management. Other key areas of study include primary care and health outcomes, healthcare cost, quality and practices, global health care issues, employment and welfare studies, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, and health disparities and outcomes.

Himmelstein has published extensively in several prominent medical journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open
  • JAMA

Several of their recent papers include:

  • Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, 2017 (2020, Annals of Internal Medicine)
  • Intersecting U.S. Epidemics: COVID-19 and Lack of Health Insurance (2020, Annals of Internal Medicine)
  • Public policy and health in the Trump era (2021, The Lancet)
  • Trends in Health Care Use Among Black and White Persons in the US, 1963-2019 (2022, JAMA Network Open)
  • Medical Documentation Burden Among US Office-Based Physicians in 2019 (2022, JAMA Internal Medicine)

Himmelstein collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Steffie Woolhandler
  • Adam Gaffney
  • Danny McCormick
  • Samuel Dickman
  • David H. Bor

Their work addresses multiple subfields within health and social sciences, such as general health professions, economics and econometrics, clinical psychology, health, and oncology. Through these interdisciplinary efforts, Himmelstein contributes to understanding the intersections of healthcare systems, policy implications, and socioeconomic factors.

Best Publications

  • Smoking and Mental Illness: A Population-Based Prevalence Study

    Karen Lasser;J. Wesley Boyd;Steffie Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein

  • Timing of new black box warnings and withdrawals for prescription medications.

    Karen E. Lasser;Paul D. Allen;Steffie J. Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein

  • Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study.

    David U. Himmelstein;Deborah Thorne;Elizabeth Warren;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Costs of health care administration in the United States and Canada.

    Steffie Woolhandler;Terry Campbell;David U. Himmelstein

  • The Health and Health Care of US Prisoners: Results of a Nationwide Survey

    Andrew P. Wilper;Steffie Woolhandler;J. Wesley Boyd;Karen E. Lasser

  • Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada: results of a cross-national population-based survey.

    Karen E. Lasser;David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults

    Andrew P. Wilper;Steffie Woolhandler;Karen E. Lasser;Danny McCormick

  • Inappropriate drug prescribing for the community-dwelling elderly.

    Sharon M. Willcox;David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Inequality and the health-care system in the USA

    Samuel L Dickman;David U Himmelstein;David U Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care?:

    Charlene Harrington;Steffie Woolhandler;Joseph Mullan;Helen Carrillo

  • Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy

    David U Himmelstein;Elizabeth Warren;Deborah Thorne;Steffie Woolhandler

  • The deteriorating administrative efficiency of the U.S. health care system.

    Steffie Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein

  • Infective endocarditis in the U.S., 1998-2009: a nationwide study.

    David Harkavy Bor;Steffie Woolhandler;Rachel Austen Nardin;John L. Brusch

  • Costs of Care and Administration at For-Profit and Other Hospitals in the United States

    Steffie Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein

  • Racial disparities in neurologic health care access and utilization in the United States.

    Altaf Saadi;David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler;Nicte I. Mejia

  • Cost without benefit. Administrative waste in U.S. health care.

    David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study

    David U. Himmelstein;Adam Wright;Steffie Woolhandler

  • Health Care Expenditures of Immigrants in the United States: A Nationally Representative Analysis

    Sarita A. Mohanty;Steffie Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein;Susmita Pati

  • Quality of care in investor-owned vs not-for-profit HMOs.

    David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler;Ida Hellander;Sidney M. Wolfe

  • Reverse targeting of preventive care due to lack of health insurance.

    Steffie Woolhandler;David U. Himmelstein

  • A national health program for the United States. A physicians' proposal.

    David U. Himmelstein;Steffie Woolhandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffie Woolhandler
Steffie Woolhandler City University of New York
Charlene Harrington
Charlene Harrington University of California, San Francisco
Nancy R. Kressin
Nancy R. Kressin Boston University
Reinhard Busse
Reinhard Busse Technical University of Berlin
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Joseph T. Mullan
Joseph T. Mullan University of California, San Francisco
Vicente Navarro
Vicente Navarro Johns Hopkins University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University

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