2026 Jennifer Prah Ruger: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jennifer Prah Ruger is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Health Professions, with notable contributions across several subfields including General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Public Health Policies and Education, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health and Conflict Studies, Health Systems involving Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, Healthcare Policy and Management, Healthcare cost, quality, and practices, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Their recent notable publications include:

"Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal" (2021), published in Health Economics Review
"Positive Public Health Ethics: Toward Flourishing and Resilient Communities and Individuals" (2020), published in The American Journal of Bioethics
"A Mixed-Methods Study of Social Determinants and Self-care in Adults With Heart Failure" (2023), published in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
"Social justice as a foundation for democracy and health" (2020), published in BMJ
"The injustice of COVID-19: we need a moral constitution for our planet's health" (2020), published in The Lancet Planetary Health

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Xiao Xu, Christina M. Lazar, Foster Osei Baah, Bridgette M. Brawner, and Anne M. Teitelman.

The venues where Jennifer Prah Ruger has often published their work comprise Health Economics Review, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, BMJ, and The Lancet Planetary Health.

In recognition of their contributions, they were awarded the designation of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

Health and Social Justice

Jennifer Prah Ruger

702
Citations
Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services by Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Christopher J. Richter;Edward L. Spitznagel;Lawrence M. Lewis

296
Citations
Health capability: conceptualization and operationalization.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

286
Citations
The Changing Role of the WORLD BANK in Global Health

Jennifer Prah Ruger

265
Citations
Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

258
Citations
Ethics and governance of global health inequalities

J P Ruger

216
Citations
Ethics of the social determinants of health

Jennifer Prah Ruger

207
Citations
Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.

Nora Y Ng;Jennifer Prah Ruger

163
Citations
Micro-costing studies in the health and medical literature: protocol for a systematic review.

Xiao Xu;Holly K Grossetta Nardini;Jennifer Prah Ruger

163
Citations
Global Health Justice

Jennifer Prah Ruger

154
Citations
Democracy and health

Ruger Jp

154
Citations
Global health inequalities: an international comparison

Ruger Jp;Kim Hj

147
Citations
Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Hak-Ju Kim

123
Citations
Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal.

Xiao Xu;Christina M. Lazar;Jennifer Prah Ruger

115
Citations
Clinical and economic factors associated with ambulance use to the emergency department.

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Christopher J. Richter;Lawrence M. Lewis

93
Citations
Coping with health care expenses among poor households: evidence from a rural commune in Vietnam

Kim Thuy Nguyen;Oanh Thi Hai Khuat;Shuangge Ma;Duc Cuong Pham

87
Citations
Health, capability, and justice: toward a new paradigm of health ethics, policy and law.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

87
Citations
EMERGING AND TRANSITIONING COUNTRIES' ROLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH.

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Nora Y. Ng

81
Citations
Shared Health Governance

Jennifer Prah Ruger

80
Citations
Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services By Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Lawrence Lewis;Christopher Richter

78
Citations
Global health governance as shared health governance

Jennifer Prah Ruger

72
Citations
Impact of health insurance on health care treatment and cost in Vietnam: a health capability approach to financial protection.

Kim Thuy Nguyen;Oanh Thi Hai Khuat;Shuangge Ma;Duc Cuong Pham

70
Citations
Rethinking equal access: Agency, quality, and norms

Ruger Jp

62
Citations
The health capability paradigm and the right to health care in the United States

Jennifer Prah Ruger

57
Citations
Economic Evaluation of Pharmaco- and Behavioral Therapies for Smoking Cessation: A Critical and Systematic Review of Empirical Research

Christina M. Lazar;Jennifer Prah Ruger

20
Citations
A Checklist for the Conduct, Reporting, and Appraisal of Microcosting Studies in Health Care: Protocol Development

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Marian Reiff

17
Citations
Responses to donor proliferation in Ghana’s health sector: a qualitative case study

Sarah Wood Pallas;Justice Nonvignon;Moses Aikins;Jennifer Prah Ruger

16
Citations
Global Tobacco Control: An integrated approach to global health policy.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

15
Citations
The Elusive Right to Health Care under U.S. Law

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Theodore W Ruger;George J Annas

15
Citations
Social justice as a foundation for democracy and health

Jennifer Prah Ruger

14
Citations
Global functions at the World Health Organization.

Jennifer Prah Ruger;Derek Yach

12
Citations
Catastrophic health expenditure

Jennifer Prah Ruger

12
Citations
Governing for the Common Good

Jennifer Prah Ruger

12
Citations
Measuring disparities in health care

Jennifer Prah Ruger

11
Citations
International institutional legitimacy and the World Health Organization

Jennifer Prah Ruger

11
Citations
Good medical ethics, justice and provincial globalism

Jennifer Prah Ruger

11
Citations
Effects of donor proliferation in development aid for health on health program performance: a conceptual framework.

Sarah Wood Pallas;Jennifer Prah Ruger

10
Citations
Money, Sex, and Religion — The Supreme Court's ACA Sequel

George J. Annas;Theodore W. Ruger;Jennifer Prah Ruger

6
Citations
Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

Jennifer Prah Ruger

0
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Frequent Co-Authors

Linda B. Cottler University of Florida

Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco

Nicoli Nattrass University of Cape Town

Derek Yach Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Stéphane Verguet Harvard University

Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen

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Overview

Best Publications

Health and Social Justice

Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services by Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy

Health capability: conceptualization and operationalization.

The Changing Role of the WORLD BANK in Global Health

Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements.

Ethics and governance of global health inequalities

Ethics of the social determinants of health

Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.

Micro-costing studies in the health and medical literature: protocol for a systematic review.

Global Health Justice

Democracy and health

Global health inequalities: an international comparison

Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea

Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal.

Clinical and economic factors associated with ambulance use to the emergency department.

Coping with health care expenses among poor households: evidence from a rural commune in Vietnam

Health, capability, and justice: toward a new paradigm of health ethics, policy and law.

EMERGING AND TRANSITIONING COUNTRIES' ROLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH.

Shared Health Governance

Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services By Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy

Global health governance as shared health governance

Impact of health insurance on health care treatment and cost in Vietnam: a health capability approach to financial protection.

Rethinking equal access: Agency, quality, and norms

The health capability paradigm and the right to health care in the United States

Economic Evaluation of Pharmaco- and Behavioral Therapies for Smoking Cessation: A Critical and Systematic Review of Empirical Research

A Checklist for the Conduct, Reporting, and Appraisal of Microcosting Studies in Health Care: Protocol Development

Responses to donor proliferation in Ghana’s health sector: a qualitative case study

Global Tobacco Control: An integrated approach to global health policy.

The Elusive Right to Health Care under U.S. Law

Social justice as a foundation for democracy and health

Global functions at the World Health Organization.

Catastrophic health expenditure

Governing for the Common Good

Measuring disparities in health care

International institutional legitimacy and the World Health Organization

Good medical ethics, justice and provincial globalism

Effects of donor proliferation in development aid for health on health program performance: a conceptual framework.

Money, Sex, and Religion — The Supreme Court's ACA Sequel

Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

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