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Global health justice and governanceJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Am J Bioeth 12:35-54. 2012..This article ties global health justice and ethics to principles for governing the global health realm, developing a theoretical framework for global and domestic institutions and actors...
Cost-effectiveness of buprenorphine and naltrexone treatments for heroin dependence in MalaysiaJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e50673. 2012..To aid public health policymaking, we studied the cost-effectiveness of buprenorphine, naltrexone, and placebo interventions for heroin dependence in Malaysia...- Patterns and factors associated with intensive use of ED services: implications for allocating resourcesJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale School of Public Health, Health Policy and Administration, New Haven, CT 06520 Electronic address
Am J Emerg Med 30:1884-94. 2012.... - Global health governance as shared health governanceJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:653-61. 2012..An ethical commitment to providing all with the ability to be healthy is required... - Cost-effectiveness of peer-delivered interventions for cocaine and alcohol abuse among women: a randomized controlled trialJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e33594. 2012..To determine whether the additional interventions to standard care are cost-effective in addressing cocaine and alcohol abuse at 4 months (4 M) and 12 months (12 M) from baseline... - Costs of addressing heroin addiction in Malaysia and 32 comparable countries worldwideJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale School of Public Health, Health Policy and Administration, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Health Serv Res 47:865-87. 2012..Develop and apply new costing methodologies to estimate costs of opioid dependence treatment in countries worldwide... - Economic evaluation of pharmaco- and behavioral therapies for smoking cessation: a critical and systematic review of empirical researchJennifer Prah Ruger
School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 33:279-305. 2012..Efforts to improve methodology will help make future studies more comparable and increase the evidence base so that such evaluations can be more useful to public health practitioners and policy makers... - Socioeconomic disparities in behavioral risk factors and health outcomes by gender in the Republic of KoreaHak Ju Kim
Dongguk University, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul, Republic of Korea
BMC Public Health 10:195. 2010.... - Cost-effectiveness of motivational interviewing for smoking cessation and relapse prevention among low-income pregnant women: a randomized controlled trialJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Value Health 11:191-8. 2008.... 
Identifying high-risk patients for triage and resource allocation in the EDJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:794-8. 2007..These findings suggest that a few easily obtainable clinical factors may significantly improve the accuracy of triage and resource allocation among patients assigned with a middle-acuity score...- Ethics in American health 1: ethical approaches to health policyJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University School of Medicine, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Law School, 60 College St, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1751-6. 2008..There is a need to integrate consequential and procedural approaches to health ethics and policy... - Rethinking equal access: agency, quality, and normsJ P Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Glob Public Health 2:78-96. 2007.... - Measuring the costs of outreach motivational interviewing for smoking cessation and relapse prevention among low-income pregnant womenJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 9:46. 2009..Estimating the costs of outreach programs is critical for understanding the economics of reaching underserved and hard-to-reach populations... - Health capability: conceptualization and operationalizationJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College St, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Am J Public Health 100:41-9. 2010..I offer a conceptual model of health capability and present a health capability profile to identify and address health capability gaps... - Costs of HIV prevention among out-of-treatment drug-using women: results of a randomized controlled trialJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 60 College St, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Public Health Rep 125:83-94. 2010..To our knowledge, this is the first micro-costing study of the SI and enhanced modules and the first of its kind targeting drug-using women... - Shared health governanceJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Am J Bioeth 11:32-45. 2011..This article develops further the SHG framework and explains its importance and implications for governing health domestically... - Economic evaluation of drug abuse treatment and HIV prevention programs in pregnant women: a systematic reviewJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Addict Behav 37:1-10. 2012..Efforts to address methodological challenges will help make future studies more comparable and have more influence on policy makers, clinicians and the public... - Health financing and insurance reform in MoroccoJennifer Prah Ruger
Division of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1009-16. 2007..In this paper we analyze these reforms: the pre-reform debate, benefits covered, financing, administration, and oversight. We also examine prospects and future challenges for implementing the reforms... - Out-of-pocket healthcare spending by the poor and chronically ill in the Republic of KoreaJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06520 8034, USA
Am J Public Health 97:804-11. 2007..We examined variations in out-of-pocket spending, estimated out-of-pocket spending burden ratio employing household equivalent income, and identified factors associated with out-of-pocket spending... - Ethics of the social determinants of healthJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Lancet 364:1092-7. 2004 - Global health inequalities: an international comparisonJ P Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:928-36. 2006.... - Ethics and governance of global health inequalitiesJ P Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:998-1003. 2006..Theories of justice are necessary to define duties and obligations of institutions and actors in reducing inequalities. The problem is the lack of a moral framework for solving problems of global health justice... - Democracy and healthJ P Ruger
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, Suite 316, P.O. Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA
QJM 98:299-304. 2005 - The changing role of the World Bank in global healthJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Public Health 95:60-70. 2005..Through a deepened understanding of the complexities of development, the World Bank now regards investments in HNP programs as fundamental to its role in the global economy... - Ethics in American health 2: an ethical framework for health system reformJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University School of Medicine, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Law School, 60 College St, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1756-63. 2008.... - Health and social justiceJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Lancet 364:1075-80. 2004 - The moral foundations of health insuranceJ P Ruger
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06525, USA
QJM 100:53-7. 2007 - Clinical and economic factors associated with ambulance use to the emergency departmentJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:879-85. 2006..Knowledge is limited, however, about clinical and economic factors associated with ambulance use compared to other arrival methods... - Health, capability, and justice: toward a new paradigm of health ethics, policy and lawJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Law, USA
Cornell J Law Public Policy 15:403-82. 2006 - Health, health care, and incompletely theorized agreements: a normative theory of health policy decision makingJennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 32:51-87. 2007..By emphasizing these factors, this approach offers findings distinct from those provided by existing analyses, and the article concludes with prescriptions for future health reform efforts... - Economic evaluations of smoking cessation and relapse prevention programs for pregnant women: a systematic reviewJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Value Health 11:180-90. 2008..This study aims to critically assess economic evaluations of smoking cessation and relapse prevention programs for pregnant women... - Measuring disparities in health careJennifer Prah Ruger
BMJ 333:274. 2006 - Catastrophe health expenditureJennifer Prah Ruger
Lancet 362:996-7; author reply 997. 2003 - Association between insurance status and admission rate for patients evaluated in the emergency departmentJennifer Prah Ruger
Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1285-8. 2003..To determine if differences exist in hospital and intensive care unit (ICU)/operating room admission rates based on health insurance status... - Combating HIV/AIDS in developing countriesJennifer Prah Ruger
BMJ 329:121-2. 2004 - What will the new World Bank head do for global health?Jennifer Prah Ruger
Lancet 365:1837-40. 2005 - Analysis of costs, length of stay, and utilization of emergency department services by frequent users: implications for health policyJennifer Prah Ruger
Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8072, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:1311-7. 2004..There is a small subgroup with more than 20 visits who are less ill or injured but also incurred lower-than-average costs per visit... - Global health governance and the World BankJennifer Prah Ruger
Lancet 370:1471-4. 2007 - Joy Phumaphi: leader in human development at the World BankJennifer Prah Ruger
Lancet 370:1477. 2007 - Global functions at the World Health OrganizationJennifer Prah Ruger
BMJ 330:1099-100. 2005 - Health and developmentJennifer Prah Ruger
Department of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Lancet 362:678. 2003
Research Grants
- Economic Evaluation of Addiction ServicesJENNIFER RUGER; Fiscal Year: 2007..Prah Ruger with the training, mentoring, time and resources to develop the specific skills and knowledge that will allow her to lead independent research on the economic evaluation of addictive services. ..
- Economic Evaluation of Drug Abuse Treatment and HIV Prevention Services for PregnJENNIFER RUGER; Fiscal Year: 2009..g. longer gestations, greater birth weight, reduced medical consequences such as admission and length of stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)). ..
- Economic Evaluation of Drug Abuse Treatment and HIV Prevention Services for PregnJENNIFER P RUGER; Fiscal Year: 2010..g. longer gestations, greater birth weight, reduced medical consequences such as admission and length of stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)). ..