Dissertation Title: "Effects of Insurance Coverage on Health Services, Outcomes, and Disparities among Adults with Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes"
Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program may have greater morbidity, requiring...
Dissertation Title: "Policy Assessment of Medical Imaging Utilization: Methods and Applications"
We developed and applied decision-analytic methods to two controversial uses of diagnostic imaging technologies: diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with...
Dissertation Title: "Religion, Parties, and Policymaking: Health Policy Debates in the United States and Brazil"
This dissertation examines the role of religion, political parties, and strategic alliances in three contemporary health policy debates in the...
Dissertation Title: "Investigating Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use and Harm: Findings and Methods"
This dissertation consists of three chapters, each a separate paper, that taken together examine policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of tobacco use in...
Dissertation Title: "Consumer's Values on Health Care Services"
This thesis includes three studies on consumers' values on health care services. The first study compares Americans' attitudes on medical technology with those of people in thirteen other...
Dissertation Title: "Modeling Health Outcomes in Resource-limited Settings"
This dissertation presents methods for improving estimates of important health outcomes in resource-limited settings. Paper 1 develops a new approach to estimating health-state...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Variation in the Correlates of Health Care Satisfaction and Beliefs"
Public satisfaction and approval are important components of determining the performance, stability, and legitimacy of health systems. Meeting public...
Dissertation Title: "Quality Improvement for Depression: Organizational and Provider Factors"
Improving the quality of depression treatment in the primary care setting is an important yet elusive goal. Few individuals with depression receive adequate...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Legal Interventions Designed to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes"
Relatively recent recognition of the significant burden of behavioral health disorders has elevated their status as public health issues in need of...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Health Policy Research: Evaluation of Universal Health Insurance and Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research"
This dissertation consists of two empirical papers and one methods paper. The first two papers use...