Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
Dissertation Title: "Unintended Consequences: Empirical Studies of Continuity of Care and Financial Incentive Gaming in Primary Care"
Strengthening primary care is a priority for health systems globally. Policies intended to modernize primary care can...
Dissertation Title: "Strategic Behavior Among Provider Organizations in Risk-Sharing Contracts"
Medicare implemented population-based risk-sharing payment models that encouraged otherwise separate providers to collaborate and form Accountable Care...
Dissertation Title： "Hospital Quality and Patient Trust in Care for Colorectal Cancer"
Quality of care has been of growing importance to U.S. health care researchers and policy makers. There is a widespread desire to improve medical outcomes and enhance...
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： "Variation in Quality and Costs of Care across Physicians and Its Determinants"
This dissertation evaluates one of the key determinants of health care quality and costs – practice patterns of physicians. A large body of literature has...
Dissertation Title： "Public Agendas, Government Action, and Health Policy"
This dissertation explores public agendas, government action and health policy. Understanding public opinion is important for two reasons. First, during national emergencies, public...
Dissertation Title： "From the Iraq War to Quality of Care: Public Response to Health Policy and Politics"
The public’s perspective is a critical component of effective health policy. It provides the insights necessary to develop policies that are...
Dissertation Title： "Assessing Patient-Reported Quality in Medical Group Practices: An Analysis of Data from the National Field Test of the Group-Level CAHPS Instrument"
There is growing interest in measuring the quality of healthcare provided by medical...
Dissertation Title: "Selection in the Medicare Program"
This dissertation uses data from the Medicare Managed Care and Fee For Service versions of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) surveys to examine market, plan, and individual...