Dissertation Title: "Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Health Care and Health Plans Using Consumer Reports and Ratings"
Interest in comparing consumer assessments of quality across health plans has grown. The Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO...
Dissertation Title: "Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care"
The numerous studies of racial disparities in health services have not achieved consensus on the definition and method for measurement of disparities...
Dissertation Title: "Ensuring the Health of Vulnerable Populations in the United States: Intersections of Politics and Public Policy"
This dissertation examines two major health policy issues in the United States: the nature of public attitudes about...
Dissertation Title: "Firearms: Storage and Use at Home and Use in Suicides by Children"
Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people are killed with firearms, and many more are injured. The three papers which make up this dissertation...
Dissertation Title: "Examining Changes in Mental Health Care by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-1992 to 2001-2003"
Using data from the 1990-1992 National Comorbidity Survey (Time 1) and the 2001-2003 National Comorbidity Survey – Replication (Time 2), this...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Politics, Public Health Law, and Health Outcomes in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa"
This dissertation is comprised of three papers that examine the political dimensions of health policymaking and the relationship...