Dissertation Title: "Aristotelian Justice and Health Policy: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements"
The dissertation focuses on the implications for health policy of Aristotelian/Capability lines of reasoning to social justice and efficiency...
Dissertation Title: "Risk Sharing in Managed Care"
Managed care continues to evolve in the pursuit of sustainable cost savings. In its early form, the industry relied on "command and control" mechanisms to influence physician practice style and reduce the...
Dissertation Title："Patient Preferences and Economic Considerations in Treatment Decisions for Multiple Sclerosis"
This thesis explores the role of patient preferences in treatment decisions and in the cost-effectiveness of three treatments for patients...
Dissertation Title："Three Essays on the Effects of Health Shocks"
This dissertation examines the effects of health shocks on a variety of individual and household-level outcomes.
Chapter 1 attempts to estimate the causal effects of health shocks on...
Dissertation Title: "Stretching the Safety Net: Child Participation in Public Insurance and the State of Community Health Centers"
Non-participation by children eligible for public insurance programs in the United States has been a persistent dilemma for...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating the Effects of Two Successive Policies Regarding Obstetrical Lengths of Stay"
This dissertation evaluates effects of two policies affecting a large health maintenance organization (HMO) population: an "early discharge"...
Dissertation Title: "Community and Environmental Determinants of Child Health"
The first and third papers of this dissertation provide evidence on one piece of a broad debate over decentralizing health sectors in developing countries: the popular but...
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: "The Infant Mechanical Ventilator: Time to Kill The Technology Overkill?"
Background. As a result of advances in medical treatment, fewer infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) now require positive pressure mechanical...
Dissertation Title: "An Inquiry into the Links between Labour-Market Experiences and Health"
In the first of three papers I developed a research framework with which to conceptualize and plan research on the health consequences of labour-market...