Dissertation Title: "Health During Pregnancy: Essays on Access to Care, Preventing Adverse Outcomes, and Health System Structures"
This dissertation investigates how access to care, clinical guidelines, and health system design affect maternal health...
Dissertation Title: "The Design of Public Health Insurance Programs and the Welfare of Low-Income Groups"
In the 1920s, health insurance in the United States was a fringe benefit covering only a few employee groups and limited to a few hospital benefits...
Katie Camacho Orona received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors and her Masters of Public Health from Brown University. While attending Brown University, Katie was the recipient of the 2017 Royce Fellowship for Sport & Society, the 2018 Milken Institute...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Maternal Health"
This dissertation focuses on exploring the maternity episode and it's associations with healthcare use, healthcare spending, and social policies. The first chapter uses survey data and a difference-in...