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Jennifer Prah Ruger publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer Prah Ruger sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jennifer Prah Ruger D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer Prah Ruger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • 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

  • Health capability: conceptualization and operationalization.

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • The Changing Role of the WORLD BANK in Global Health

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Ethics and governance of global health inequalities

    J P Ruger

  • Ethics of the social determinants of health

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.

    Nora Y Ng;Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Xiao Xu;Holly K Grossetta Nardini;Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Global Health Justice

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Democracy and health

    Ruger Jp

  • Global health inequalities: an international comparison

    Ruger Jp;Kim Hj

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger;Hak-Ju Kim

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

    Xiao Xu;Christina M. Lazar;Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

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

  • 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

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • EMERGING AND TRANSITIONING COUNTRIES' ROLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH.

    Jennifer Prah Ruger;Nora Y. Ng

  • Shared Health Governance

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • 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

  • Global health governance as shared health governance

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • 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

  • Rethinking equal access: Agency, quality, and norms

    Ruger Jp

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Christina M. Lazar;Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger;Marian Reiff

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

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

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Jennifer Prah Ruger;Theodore W Ruger;George J Annas

  • Social justice as a foundation for democracy and health

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Global functions at the World Health Organization.

    Jennifer Prah Ruger;Derek Yach

  • Catastrophic health expenditure

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Governing for the Common Good

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Measuring disparities in health care

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • International institutional legitimacy and the World Health Organization

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

  • Good medical ethics, justice and provincial globalism

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

    Sarah Wood Pallas;Jennifer Prah Ruger

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

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

  • Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

    Jennifer Prah Ruger

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen M. Emmons
Karen M. Emmons Harvard University
Kimberly A. Yonkers
Kimberly A. Yonkers Yale University
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom Harvard University
Shuangge Ma
Shuangge Ma Yale University
George J. Annas
George J. Annas Boston University
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Milton C. Weinstein
Milton C. Weinstein Harvard University
Derek Yach
Derek Yach Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
Nicoli Nattrass
Nicoli Nattrass University of Cape Town

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