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Overview

Steffie Woolhandler is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within health professions, medicine, and economics, with a significant focus on healthcare policy, management, and the evaluation of health outcomes.

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Steffie Woolhandler's frequent coauthors include:

  • David U. Himmelstein
  • Adam Gaffney
  • Danny McCormick
  • Samuel Dickman
  • David H. Bor

The researcher has published extensively in several notable journals, including:

  • Journal of General Internal Medicine (17 publications)
  • Annals of Internal Medicine (10 publications)
  • JAMA Internal Medicine (9 publications)
  • JAMA (7 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (6 publications)

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Steffie Woolhandler showcase important themes in health and policy, such as:

  • 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
  • COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails in the United States, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine (authored by Laura Hawks)
  • Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, 2017, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine (authored by David U. Himmelstein)
  • Trends in Health Care Use Among Black and White Persons in the US, 1963-2019, 2022, JAMA Network Open (authored by Samuel Dickman)

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Health Professions
  • Medicine
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these broader domains, their work further focuses on specific subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • Oncology

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

  • Minority Physicians’ Role in the Care of Underserved Patients: Diversifying the Physician Workforce May Be Key in Addressing Health Disparities

    Lyndonna M. Marrast;Leah Zallman;Steffie Woolhandler;David H. Bor

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

David U. Himmelstein
David U. Himmelstein City University of New York
Charlene Harrington
Charlene Harrington University of California, San Francisco
Nancy R. Kressin
Nancy R. Kressin Boston University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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
Qi Zhou
Qi Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University

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