PUBLICATIONS


BOOKS

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

Ruger JP. (in press) Global Health Justice and Governance, Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.


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, 2003a; 10(11): 1285-8.

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

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

Ruger JP. “Millennium Development Goals for Health: Building Human Capabilities,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004c; 82(12): 951-2.

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, 2004d; 11(12): 1311-7.

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

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

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

Ruger JP. "Global Tobacco Control: An Integrated Approach to Global Health Policy," Development, 2005d; 48(2):65-69.

Ruger JP. “Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006a; 60(11): 998-1003.

Ruger JP. “Health, Capability, and Justice: Toward a New Paradigm of Health Ethics, Policy and Law,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2006b; 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, 2006c; 18(2): 273-326.

Ruger JP, and Kim H-J. “Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006d; 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, 2006e; 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, 2007a; 97(5):804-11.

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

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

Ruger JP. “Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2007d; 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, 2007e; 25(7): 794-8.

Ruger JP, and Kress D. “Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco,” Health Affairs, 2007f; 26(4): 1009-16.

Ruger JP. "Global Health Governance and the World Bank," Lancet, 2007g; 370(9597): 1471-4.

Ruger JP, and Emmons KM. “Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review,” Value in Health, 2008a; 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, 2008b; 11(2): 191-8.

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

Ruger JP. “Normative Foundations of Global Health Law,” Georgetown Law Journal, 2008d; (2): 423-43.

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

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

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

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

Ruger JP, and Yach D. “The Global Role of the World Health Organization,” Global Health Governance, 2009a; 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, 2009b; 9:46.

Ruger JP. "Global Health Justice," Public Health Ethics, 2009c; 2(3):261-275.

Venkataramani AS, Maughan-Brown B, Nattrass N, and Ruger JP. "Social Grants, Welfare, and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa," AIDS and Behavior, 2010a; 14:1393-1400.

Ruger JP. "Health Capability: Conceptualization and Operationalization," American Journal of Public Health, 2010b; 100(1): 41-49.

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, 2010c; 125(Suppl 1): 83-94.

Ruger JP. "Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Root Cause Analysis," Global Health Governance, 2010d; 3(2).

Venkataramani AS, Shanmugum KR, and Ruger JP. “Health, Technical Efficiency and Agricultural Production in Indian Districts,” Journal of Economic Development, 2010e; 35(4).

Ruger JP, and Ng NY. "Emerging and Transitioning Countries' Role in Global Health," Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy, 2010f; 3:253-289.

Kim HJ, and Ruger JP. “Socioeconomic Disparities in Behavioral Risk Factors and Health Outcomes by Gender in the Republic of Korea,” BMC Public Health, 2010g; 10(1):195.

Wachira C, and Ruger JP. "National Poverty Reduction Strategies and HIV/AIDS Governance in Malawi: A Preliminary Study of Shared Health Governance," Social Science & Medicine, 2011a; 72:1956-1964.

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,” Social Science & Medicine, 2011b; 72:1948-1955.

Ruger JP.Shared Health Governance,American Journal of Bioethics, 2011c; 11(7):32-45.

Ng N, Ruger JP.Global Health Governance at a Crossroads,Global Health Governance, 2011d; 3(2):1-37.

Ruger JP. “Global Health Governance as Shared Health Governance,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012a; 66(7):653-61.

Ruger, JP, and Lazar CM. "Economic Evaluation of Pharmaco- and Behavioral Therapies for Smoking Cessation:  A Critical and Systematic Review of Empirical Research," Annual Review of Public Health, 2012b; 33:279-305.

Ruger JP, Chawarski M, Mazlan M, Luekens C, Ng N, and Schottenfeld R. "Costs of addressing heroin addiction in Malaysia and 32 comparable countries worldwide," Health Services Research, 2012c; 47(2):865-887.

Ruger JP, and Lazar CM. "Economic evaluation of drug abuse treatment and HIV prevention programs in pregnant women: a systematic review," Addictive Behaviors, 2012d; 37(1):1-10. 

Nguyen K, Khuat O, Ma S, Pham D, Khuat G, and Ruger JP. “Coping with health care expenses among poor households: evidence from a rural commune in Vietnam,” Social Science & Medicine, 2012e; 74(5):724-733.

Nguyen KT, Khuat OTH, Ma S, Pham DC, Khuat GTH, and Ruger JP. “Impact of health insurance on health care treatment and cost in Vietnam: a health capability approach to financial protection,” American Journal of Public Health, 2012f; 102(8): 1450-1461.

Ruger JP, Abdallah AB, Luekens C, and Cottler L. “Cost-effectiveness of peer-delivered interventions for cocaine and alcohol abuse among women: a randomized controlled trial,” PLoS ONE, 2012g; 7(3):e33594.

Ruger JP, Lewis LM, and Richter CJ, “Patterns and Factors Associated with Intensive Utilization of ED Services: Implications for Allocating Resources,” American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012h;30(9):1884-94.

Ruger JP, "An Alternative Framework for Analyzing Financial Protection in Health," PLoS Medicine, 2012i;9(8):e1001294.

Nguyen KT, Khuat OTH, Ma S, Pham DC, Khuat GTH, and Ruger JP. “Effect of Health Expenses on Household Capabilities and Resource Allocation in Vietnam,” PLoS ONE, 2012j; 7(10): e47423.

Ruger JP, Chawarski M, Mazlan M, Ng N, Schottenfeld R. "Cost-Effectiveness of Buprenorphine and Naltrexone Treatments for Heroin Dependence in Malaysia," PLoS ONE, 2012k; 7(12):e50673.

Ruger JP. "Global Health Justice and Governance," American Journal of Bioethics, 2012l; 12(12):35-54.

 

WORKING PAPERS / PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Ruger JP, Abdallah AB, Ng N, Luekens C, and Cottler L. "Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent HIV and STDs among injection drug-using women: a randomized controlled trial," under review.

Ruger JP, Hammonds R, Ooms G, Barry D, Chapman A, and Van Damme W. "From conceptual pluralism to practical agreement on policy: the case for a global fund for health," under review.

Ruger JP. "The cost side of health morality," under review.



EDITORIALS

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

Ruger JP. “Combating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries,” British Medical Journal, 2004e; 329(7458):121-2. 
Replies to Combating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
 
Ruger JP
, and Yach D. “Global Functions at the World Health Organization,” British Medical Journal, 2005e; 330(7500): 1099-100.

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

Ruger JP. “Fair Enough? Inviting Inequities in State Health Benefits,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2012c; 366:681-683.


LETTERS

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

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

Ruger JP. “Health Capability: Conceptualization and Operationalization - Reply,” American Journal of Public Health, 2010h; 100(10):1824.

Ruger JP. “Responses to Peer Commentaries on 'Shared Health Governance',” American Journal of Bioethics, 2011e; 11(7):W1-W3.

Ruger JP. “Reply to Commentaries on 'Health and Social Justice',” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2011f; 12(4):599-605.

Ruger JP. "Author Response to Letter to the Editor: Making Power Visible in Global Health Governance," American Journal of Bioethics, 2012a; 12(7):65.

Ruger JP. "Responses to Open Peer Commentaries on 'Global Health Justice and Governance,'" American Journal of Bioethics, 2012b; 12(12):W6-W8. 


BOOK REVIEWS (All Invited)

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

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

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Global Public Health, 2007h; 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, 2008i; 358(18): 1976-7.

Ruger JP. Invited. Review of Allen Buchanan’s Justice and Health Care: Selected Essays, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2010i; August 31.


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.

Ruger JP, Jamison DT, Bloom DE, and Canning D. (2012) “Health and the Economy,” In M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills (Eds.), Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Third Edition, Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning, pp. 757-814.

Ruger JP. (2012). "Global Health Justice," In D. Hicks and T. Williamson (Eds.),  Leadership and Global Justice, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-129.