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Michael K. Gusmano

Michael K. Gusmano

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Political Science

D-Index
26
Citations
2423
World Ranking
1549
National Ranking
772

Overview

Michael K. Gusmano is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States. Their research spans several main fields including Health Professions, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on the subfields of General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Health.

The topics covered extensively in their work include Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Global Health Care Issues, Xenotransplantation and immune response, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, and Gun Ownership and Violence Research.

Michael K. Gusmano has contributed papers to multiple distinguished publication venues. Among these, the most frequent are:

  • The Hastings Center Report
  • Innovation in Aging
  • World Medical & Health Policy
  • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • Xenotransplantation

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Thrust Into the Spotlight: COVID-19 Focuses Media Attention on Nursing Homes," 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Identifying participants for inclusion in hospital-based violence intervention: An analysis of 18 years of urban firearm recidivism," 2020, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • "Partisanship in Initial State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2020, World Medical & Health Policy
  • "The Impact of Firearm Legislation on Firearm Deaths, 1991-2017," 2021, Journal of Public Health
  • "Aggregating 23 years of data on medical aid in dying in the United States," 2022, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Frequent collaborators in their research include Victor G. Rodwin, Edward Miller, Pamela Nadash, Daniel Weisz, and Karen J. Maschke.

Best Publications

  • An evaluation of the policy on community health organizations in China: will the priority of new healthcare reform in China be a success?

    Hufeng Wang;Michael K. Gusmano;Qi Cao

  • Exploring the limits of the safety net: community health centers and care for the uninsured.

    Michael K. Gusmano;Gerry Fairbrother;Heidi Park

  • AHCPR and the changing politics of health services research.

    Bradford H. Gray;Michael K. Gusmano;Sara R. Collins

  • A New Way To Compare Health Systems: Avoidable Hospital Conditions In Manhattan And Paris

    Michael K. Gusmano;Victor G. Rodwin;Daniel Weisz

  • Gender and the Treatment of Heart Disease in Older Persons in the United States, France, and England: A Comparative, Population-Based View of a Clinical Phenomenon

    Daniel Weisz;Michael K. Gusmano;Victor G. Rodwin;Victor G. Rodwin

  • Disparities in access to health care in three French regions

    Michael K. Gusmano;Daniel Weisz;Victor G. Rodwin;Jonas Lang

  • Policy Feedback and Public Opinion: The Role of Employer Responsibility in Social Policy

    Michael K. Gusmano;Mark Schlesinger;Tracey Thomas

  • Population health and the health system: a comparative analysis of avoidable mortality in three nations and their world cities

    Daniel Weisz;Michael K. Gusmano;Michael K. Gusmano;Victor G. Rodwin;Victor G. Rodwin;Leland G. Neuberg

  • The World Cities Project: rationale, organization, and design for comparison of megacity health systems.

    Victor G. Rodwin;Michael K. Gusmano

  • Patient-Centered Care, Yes; Patients As Consumers, No.

    Michael K. Gusmano;Karen J. Maschke;Mildred Z. Solomon

  • The Ethical Imperative And Moral Challenges Of Engaging Patients And The Public With Evidence

    Mildred Z. Solomon;Michael K. Gusmano;Karen J. Maschke

  • Social vulnerability index for the older people-Hong Kong and New York City as examples.

    Pui Hing Chau;Michael K. Gusmano;Joanna O. Y. Cheng;Sai Hei Cheung

  • Preterm births, multiples, and fertility treatment: recommendations for changes to policy and clinical practices.

    Josephine Johnston;Michael K. Gusmano;Pasquale Patrizio

  • Identifying participants for inclusion in hospital-based violence intervention: An analysis of 18 years of urban firearm recidivism.

    Stephanie Bonne;Ann Tufariello;Zachary Coles;Bernadette Hohl

  • Population Aging and the Sustainability of the Welfare State.

    Michael K. Gusmano;Kieke G. H. Okma

  • Trump and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Repeal Efforts, Executive Federalism, and Program Durability

    Frank J. Thompson;Michael K. Gusmano;Shugo Shinohara

  • Thrust into the Spotlight: COVID-19 Focuses Media Attention on Nursing Homes.

    Edward Alan Miller;Edward Alan Miller;Elizabeth Simpson;Pamela Nadash;Michael Gusmano

  • The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Next Steps and Prior Questions

    Gregory E. Kaebnick;Michael K. Gusmano;Thomas H. Murray

  • Vaccination and healthy ageing: How to make life-course vaccination a successful public health strategy

    J. P. Michel;M. Gusmano;P.R. Blank;Ian Philp

  • An Examination Of Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Initiatives Under Way In Six States

    Michael K. Gusmano;Frank J. Thompson

  • Comparison of rehospitalization rates in France and the United States.

    Michael Gusmano;Victor Rodwin;Daniel Weisz;Jonathan Cottenet

  • Emergency department use: a reflection of poor primary care access?

    Daniel Weisz;Michael K Gusmano;Grace Wong;John Trombley

  • The Administrative Presidency and Fractious Federalism: The Case of Obamacare

    Frank J. Thompson;Michael K. Gusmano

  • Partisanship in Initial State Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic

    Michael K. Gusmano;Edward Alan Miller;Pamela Nadash;Elizabeth J. Simpson

  • Life course vaccination and healthy aging.

    Michael K. Gusmano;Jean-Pierre Michel

  • Care For The Uninsured In General Internists’ Private Offices

    Gerry Fairbrother;Michael K. Gusmano;Heidi L. Park;Roberta Scheinmann

  • FDA Decisions and Public Deliberation:Challenges and Opportunities

    Michael K. Gusmano

  • How Are Safety-Net Providers Faring Under Medicaid Managed Care?

    Colleen M. Grogan;Michael K. Gusmano

  • The Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Lessons from Recent History

    Corinna Sorenson;Michael K. Gusmano;Adam Oliver

  • AHCPR And The Changing Politics Of Health Services

    Bradford H. Gray;Michael K. Gusmano;Sara R. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Alan Miller
Edward Alan Miller University of Massachusetts Boston
Colleen M. Grogan
Colleen M. Grogan University of Chicago
Mark Schlesinger
Mark Schlesinger Yale University
Jean Woo
Jean Woo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paul Boxer
Paul Boxer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sara J. Rosenbaum
Sara J. Rosenbaum George Washington University
Bruce Jennings
Bruce Jennings Vanderbilt University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center
Ellen Nolte
Ellen Nolte London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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