Dissertation Title： "Individual, Clinical, and Contextual Factors Affecting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Quality"
Current research indicates that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the risk factors, incidence, and...
Dissertation Title： "Quality of Life, Health-Related Stigma, and The Social Context: Longitudinal Analyses of PLWHA in Uganda and a Literature Review"
The dissertation examines the experience of living with stigmatized health conditions in the social...
Dissertation Title： "Toward a Better Understanding of HIV Risk among Young South Africans: Risk Perceptions and the Risk of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships"
South Africa is in the midst of a severe HIV epidemic and prevention efforts to date have had only...
Dissertation Title: "Gender and Health: The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Health"
The medical literature presents many examples of differences in health care use by men and women. The roots of these differences include biological, social, and...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Quality and Access: Cancer Care Disparities, Composite Measure Development, and Geographic Variations in Electronic Health Record Adoption"
Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer care are well documented in the...
Dissertation Title："Continuity and Team Approaches to Care: Effects on Physician-Patient Relationship Quality, Patients’ Experiences, and the Technical Quality of Care"
Team approaches to care are increasingly being considered critical to improving quality...
Dissertation Title："Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention"
New medical technologies have the potential to improve health outcomes substantially and cost-effectively, if used appropriately. This dissertation uses the...
Dissertation Title："Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecutiry, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda"
This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and...
Dissertation Title："Medicare Beneficiaries and Market Variations in Service Use, Quality of Care, and Plan Choice"
Paper 1 examined relationships between an area’s intensity of service use and patient experiences, complementing research that showed markets...
Dissertation Title: "Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US"
Infertility is a common problem in the US, affecting approximately 1 in 8 couples of childbearing age, or over 7 million women nationwide. But...