Jennifer Prah Ruger

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Ruger JP. (2009) Health and Social Justice, Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.

Ruger JP. Global Health Justice and Governance (forthcoming)

Ruger JP. The World Bank and Global Health (in progress)

ARTICLES

Ruger JP, Richter CJ, and Lewis LM. “Association Between Insurance Status and Admission Rate for Patients Evaluated in the Emergency Department,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003; 10(11): 1285-8.

Ruger JP. “Ethics of the Social Determinants of Health,” Lancet, 2004; 364:1092-7.

Ruger JP. “Health and Social Justice,” Lancet, 2004; 364:1075-80.

Ruger JP. “Millennium Development Goals for Health: Building Human Capabilities,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004; 82(12): 951-2. (Invited Round Table with Jeffrey Sachs, William Savedoff, Guy Carrin, David Sanders)

Ruger JP, Richter CJ, Spitznagel EL, and Lewis LM. “Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services by Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004; 11(12): 1311-7.

Ruger JP. “Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health,” American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95(1): 60-70.

Ruger JP. “Democracy and Health,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2005; 98(4): 299-304.

Ruger JP. “What Will the New World Bank Head do for Global Health?” Lancet, 2005; 365: 1837-40.

Ruger JP. “Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006; 60(11): 998-1003. (Selected as Editor’s Choice for November 2006 issue)

Ruger JP. “Health, Capability, and Justice: Toward a New Paradigm of Health Ethics, Policy and Law,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2006; 15(2): 403-82.

Ruger JP. “Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 2006; 18(2): 273-326.

Ruger JP, and Kim H-J. “Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006; 60 (11): 928-36.

Ruger JP, Richter CJ, and Lewis LM. “Clinical and Economic Factors Associated with Ambulance Use to the Emergency Department,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2006; 13(8):879-85.

Ruger JP, and Kim HJ. “Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea,” American Journal of Public Health, 2007; 97(5):804-11. (Selected as Lead Research Article for May 2007 issue on Health Inequalities Locally, Nationally and Globally)

Ruger JP. “Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality and Norms,” Global Public Health, 2007; 2(1): 78-96.

Ruger JP. “Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory of Health-Policy Decision-Making,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2007; 32(1): 51-87.

Ruger JP. “Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2007; 100(1): 53-7.

Ruger JP, Lewis LM, and Richter CJ. “Identifying High-Risk Patients for Triage and Resource Allocation in the ED,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007; 25(7): 794-8.

Ruger JP, and Kress D. “Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco,” Health Affairs, 2007; 26(4): 1009-16. (Published in first ever Theme Issue on Global Health, entitled, “Financing and Improving Global Health Care” and focus of National Press Club briefing, Washington DC)

Ruger JP. "Global Health Governance and the World Bank," Lancet, 2007; 370(9597): 1471-4. (Published in Council of Science Editor’s Special Global Theme Issue on Global Poverty and Human Development and featured as a highlight of that week’s Issue on Lancet Podcast)

Ruger JP, and Emmons KM. “Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review,” Value in Health, 2008; 11(2): 180-90.

Ruger JP, Weinstein MC, Hammond SK, Kearney MH, and Emmons KM. “Cost-Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Value in Health, 2008; 11(2): 191-8 .

Ruger JP. “Social Risk Management: Reducing Disparities in Risk, Vulnerability and Poverty Equitably,” Medicine and Law Journal, 2008; 27(1): 109-18.

Ruger JP. “Normative Foundations of Global Health Law,” Georgetown Law Journal, 2008; (2): 423-43. (Published in Special Symposium of The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law)

Ruger JP. “Governing Health,” Harvard Law Review Forum, 2008; 121: 43-56.

Ruger, JP. “Ethics in American Health 1: Ethical Approaches to Health Policy,” American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98(10): 1751-6.

Ruger, JP. “Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework For Health System Reform,” American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98(10): 1756-63.

Kim HJ, and Ruger JP. “Pharmaceutical Reform in South Korea and the Lessons It Provides,” Health Affairs, 2008;27(4):w260-9.

Ruger JP, and Yach D. “The Global Role of the World Health Organization,” Global Health Governance, 2009; 2(2).

Ruger JP, Emmons KM, Kearney MH, and Weinstein MC. “Measuring the Costs of Outreach Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Among Low-Income Pregnant Women,” BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2009; 9:46.

Ruger JP. "Health Capability: Conceptualization and Operationalization," American Journal of Public Health, in press.

Ruger JP. "Global Health Justice," Public Health Ethics, 2009:1-15.

Ruger JP, Abdallah AB, and Cottler L. “Costs of HIV Prevention Among Out of Treatment Drug Using Women: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” Public Health Reports, in press.

Venkataramani AS, Maughan-Brown B, Nattrass N, and Ruger JP. "Social Grants, Welfare and Health among Individuals on HAART in South Africa," AIDS and Behavior, in press.

WORKING PAPERS / PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Baird JL, Ma S, and Ruger JP. “Effects of the World Bank's Maternal and Child Health Intervention on Indonesia's Poor: Evaluating the Safe Motherhood Project,” under review.

Kim HJ, and Ruger JP. “Socioeconomic Disparities in Behavioral Risk Factors and Health Outcomes in the Republic of Korea,” under review.

Venkataramani AS, Rangasamy SK, and Ruger JP. “Health, Technical Efficiency and Agricultural Production in Indian Districts,” under review.

Nguyen KT, Khuat OTH, Ma S, Pham DC, Khuat GTH, and Ruger JP. “Impact of Health Expenses on Household Capabilities and Resource Allocation in Hanoi, Vietnam,” under review.

Nguyen K, Khuat O, Ma S, Pham D, Khuat G, and Ruger JP. “Coping with Health Care Expenses Among Poor Households in Dai Dong, a Rural Commune of Hanoi, Vietnam.” under review.

Ruger JP. “Public Health and Emerging Risks: Emerging Countries' Responsibility and International Cooperation,” Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, Idées pour le débat, 2007; 2.

Wachira C, and Ruger JP. "National Poverty Reduction Strategy and HIV/AIDS Governance in Malawi: A Preliminary Study of Shared Health Governance," under review.

EDITORIALS

Ruger JP. “Health and Development,” Lancet, 2003; 362(9385): 678.

Ruger JP. “Combating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries,” British Medical Journal, 2004; 329(7458):121-2.

Ruger JP. “Global Tobacco Control: An Integrated Approach to Global Health Policy,” Development, 2005; 48(2): 65-9.

Ruger JP, and Yach D. “Global Functions at the World Health Organization,” British Medical Journal, 2005; 330(7500): 1099-100.

Ruger JP. “Measuring Disparities in Health Care,” British Medical Journal, 2006; 333(7562):274.

LETTERS

Ruger JP. “Catastrophic Health Expenditure,” Lancet, 2003; 362(9388): 996-7.

Ruger JP. “Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health – Reply,” American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95 (7): 1092.

BOOK REVIEWS (All Invited)

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health, Journal of Public Health Policy, 2005; 26(3); 377-82.

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Peter Baldwin’s Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS, British Medical Journal, 2005; 331(7522): 970.

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Global Public Health, 2007; 2(2): 206-9.

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Philip Cook's Paying the Tab: the Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, New England Journal of Medicine, 2008; 358(18): 1976-7.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND REPORTS

Safran DG, and Ruger JP. (1994) The Massachusetts Health Care Industry: Pathways to the Future. Task Force on the Health Care Industry Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, Boston, MA: The Health Institute, April.

Ruger JP, Malaney P, Jamison D, and Bloom D. (1998) Health, Health Policy, and Economic Outcomes. Final Report for Health and Development Satellite, World Health Organization Director-General Transition Team, World Health Organization, 12 August.

Schieber GJ, Ruger JP, Klingen N, Pierre-Louis AM, and Driss ZE. (1999) Morocco Health Financing Brief, World Bank, Washington, DC.

Ruger JP, Jamison DT, and Bloom DE. (2001) “Health and the Economy,” In M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills (Eds.), International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc., pp. 617-66.

Ruger JP, Jamison DT, Bloom DE, and Canning D. (2006) “Health and the Economy,” In M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills (Eds.), International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Second Edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, pp.601-47.

Ruger JP. (2006) “Equity and Justice,” In M. Marinker (Ed.), Constructive Conversations about Health: Policy and Values. Abingdon, U.K.: Radcliffe Publishing, pp. 41-50.


	PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Ruger JP. (2009) Health and Social Justice, Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. Ruger JP. Global Health Justice and Governance (forthcoming) Ruger JP. The World Bank and Global Health (in progress) ARTICLES Ruger JP, Richter CJ, and Lewis LM. “Association Between Insurance Status and Admission Rate for Patients Evaluated in the Emergency Department,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003; 10(11): 1285-8. Ruger JP. “Ethics of the Social Determinants of Health,” Lancet, 2004; 364:1092-7. Ruger JP. “Health and Social Justice,” Lancet, 2004; 364:1075-80. Ruger JP. “Millennium Development Goals for Health: Building Human Capabilities,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004; 82(12): 951-2. (Invited Round Table with Jeffrey Sachs, William Savedoff, Guy Carrin, David Sanders) Ruger JP, Richter CJ, Spitznagel EL, and Lewis LM. “Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services by Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004; 11(12): 1311-7. Ruger JP. “Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health,” American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95(1): 60-70. Ruger JP. “Democracy and Health,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2005; 98(4): 299-304. Ruger JP. “What Will the New World Bank Head do for Global Health?” Lancet, 2005; 365: 1837-40. Ruger JP. “Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006; 60(11): 998-1003. (Selected as Editor’s Choice for November 2006 issue) Ruger JP. “Health, Capability, and Justice: Toward a New Paradigm of Health Ethics, Policy and Law,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2006; 15(2): 403-82. Ruger JP. “Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 2006; 18(2): 273-326. Ruger JP, and Kim H-J. “Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006; 60 (11): 928-36. Ruger JP, Richter CJ, and Lewis LM. “Clinical and Economic Factors Associated with Ambulance Use to the Emergency Department,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2006; 13(8):879-85. Ruger JP, and Kim HJ. “Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea,” American Journal of Public Health, 2007; 97(5):804-11. (Selected as Lead Research Article for May 2007 issue on Health Inequalities Locally, Nationally and Globally) Ruger JP. “Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality and Norms,” Global Public Health, 2007; 2(1): 78-96. Ruger JP. “Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory of Health-Policy Decision-Making,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2007; 32(1): 51-87. Ruger JP. “Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2007; 100(1): 53-7. Ruger JP, Lewis LM, and Richter CJ. “Identifying High-Risk Patients for Triage and Resource Allocation in the ED,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007; 25(7): 794-8. Ruger JP, and Kress D. “Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco,” Health Affairs, 2007; 26(4): 1009-16. (Published in first ever Theme Issue on Global Health, entitled, “Financing and Improving Global Health Care” and focus of National Press Club briefing, Washington DC) Ruger JP. "Global Health Governance and the World Bank," Lancet, 2007; 370(9597): 1471-4. (Published in Council of Science Editor’s Special Global Theme Issue on Global Poverty and Human Development and featured as a highlight of that week’s Issue on Lancet Podcast) Ruger JP, and Emmons KM. “Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review,” Value in Health, 2008; 11(2): 180-90. Ruger JP, Weinstein MC, Hammond SK, Kearney MH, and Emmons KM. “Cost-Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Value in Health, 2008; 11(2): 191-8 . Ruger JP. “Social Risk Management: Reducing Disparities in Risk, Vulnerability and Poverty Equitably,” Medicine and Law Journal, 2008; 27(1): 109-18. Ruger JP. “Normative Foundations of Global Health Law,” Georgetown Law Journal, 2008; (2): 423-43. (Published in Special Symposium of The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law) Ruger JP. “Governing Health,” Harvard Law Review Forum, 2008; 121: 43-56. Ruger, JP. “Ethics in American Health 1: Ethical Approaches to Health Policy,” American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98(10): 1751-6. Ruger, JP. “Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework For Health System Reform,” American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98(10): 1756-63. Kim HJ, and Ruger JP. “Pharmaceutical Reform in South Korea and the Lessons It Provides,” Health Affairs, 2008;27(4):w260-9. Ruger JP, and Yach D. “The Global Role of the World Health Organization,” Global Health Governance, 2009; 2(2). Ruger JP, Emmons KM, Kearney MH, and Weinstein MC. “Measuring the Costs of Outreach Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Among Low-Income Pregnant Women,” BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2009; 9:46. Ruger JP. "Health Capability: Conceptualization and Operationalization," American Journal of Public Health, in press. Ruger JP. "Global Health Justice," Public Health Ethics, 2009:1-15. Ruger JP, Abdallah AB, and Cottler L. “Costs of HIV Prevention Among Out of Treatment Drug Using Women: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” Public Health Reports, in press. Venkataramani AS, Maughan-Brown B, Nattrass N, and Ruger JP. "Social Grants, Welfare and Health among Individuals on HAART in South Africa," AIDS and Behavior, in press. WORKING PAPERS / PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Baird JL, Ma S, and Ruger JP. “Effects of the World Bank's Maternal and Child Health Intervention on Indonesia's Poor: Evaluating the Safe Motherhood Project,” under review. Kim HJ, and Ruger JP. “Socioeconomic Disparities in Behavioral Risk Factors and Health Outcomes in the Republic of Korea,” under review. Venkataramani AS, Rangasamy SK, and Ruger JP. “Health, Technical Efficiency and Agricultural Production in Indian Districts,” under review. Nguyen KT, Khuat OTH, Ma S, Pham DC, Khuat GTH, and Ruger JP. “Impact of Health Expenses on Household Capabilities and Resource Allocation in Hanoi, Vietnam,” under review. Nguyen K, Khuat O, Ma S, Pham D, Khuat G, and Ruger JP. “Coping with Health Care Expenses Among Poor Households in Dai Dong, a Rural Commune of Hanoi, Vietnam.” under review. Ruger JP. “Public Health and Emerging Risks: Emerging Countries' Responsibility and International Cooperation,” Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, Idées pour le débat, 2007; 2. Wachira C, and Ruger JP. "National Poverty Reduction Strategy and HIV/AIDS Governance in Malawi: A Preliminary Study of Shared Health Governance," under review. EDITORIALS Ruger JP. “Health and Development,” Lancet, 2003; 362(9385): 678. Ruger JP. “Combating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries,” British Medical Journal, 2004; 329(7458):121-2. Ruger JP. “Global Tobacco Control: An Integrated Approach to Global Health Policy,” Development, 2005; 48(2): 65-9. Ruger JP, and Yach D. “Global Functions at the World Health Organization,” British Medical Journal, 2005; 330(7500): 1099-100. Ruger JP. “Measuring Disparities in Health Care,” British Medical Journal, 2006; 333(7562):274. LETTERS Ruger JP. “Catastrophic Health Expenditure,” Lancet, 2003; 362(9388): 996-7. Ruger JP. “Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health – Reply,” American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95 (7): 1092. BOOK REVIEWS (All Invited) Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health, Journal of Public Health Policy, 2005; 26(3); 377-82. Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Peter Baldwin’s Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS, British Medical Journal, 2005; 331(7522): 970. Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Global Public Health, 2007; 2(2): 206-9. Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Philip Cook's Paying the Tab: the Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, New England Journal of Medicine, 2008; 358(18): 1976-7. BOOK CHAPTERS AND REPORTS Safran DG, and Ruger JP. (1994) The Massachusetts Health Care Industry: Pathways to the Future. Task Force on the Health Care Industry Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, Boston, MA: The Health Institute, April. Ruger JP, Malaney P, Jamison D, and Bloom D. (1998) Health, Health Policy, and Economic Outcomes. Final Report for Health and Development Satellite, World Health Organization Director-General Transition Team, World Health Organization, 12 August. Schieber GJ, Ruger JP, Klingen N, Pierre-Louis AM, and Driss ZE. (1999) Morocco Health Financing Brief, World Bank, Washington, DC. Ruger JP, Jamison DT, and Bloom DE. (2001) “Health and the Economy,” In M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills (Eds.), International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc., pp. 617-66. Ruger JP, Jamison DT, Bloom DE, and Canning D. (2006) “Health and the Economy,” In M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills (Eds.), International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Second Edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, pp.601-47. Ruger JP. (2006) “Equity and Justice,” In M. Marinker (Ed.), Constructive Conversations about Health: Policy and Values. Abingdon, U.K.: Radcliffe Publishing, pp. 41-50.