Dissertation Title: "Cost-Effectiveness of 64-Slice Computed Tomography in Cardiac Care and An Analysis of the Adoption and Diffusion of a New Technology"
The 64-slice computed tomography (CT), a recent advance in radiological imaging, has the potential...
Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less"
New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...
Dissertation Title： "Quality of Cardiac Surgical Care in Ontario, Canada"
In this dissertation, a comprehensive study was undertaken to study a number of issues related to the quality of cardiac surgical care in Ontario, Canada.
In the first paper,...
Dissertation Title： "Issues in the Economic Evaluation of Health Interventions"
The objective of this thesis is to shed light on unresolved issues in the economic evaluation of health interventions.
The opening paper addresses the use of constrained...
Dissertation Title： "Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and around the World"
The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effects of policies and platforms for global surgical delivery on health, impoverishment, and inequity, and to determine how...
Dissertation Title: "The Cost-Effectiveness of Early Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV-Infected Adults"
Since 1996 there has been a dramatic shift in the treatment outlook for HIV-infected individuals as a result of the introduction of new antiviral drug...
Dissertation Title: "The Health-Related Quality of Life of Children Ages 7-10 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the Cost-Effectiveness of Treating ADHD in These Children"
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) causes...
Dissertation Title: "Empirical Approaches to Modeling HIV and Hepatitis C"
This thesis describes applications of mathematical models to three distinct problems. The common objective of the three papers was to take full advantage of all available data...
Dissertation Title: "The Application of Decision Analytic Methods to Diverse Public Health Problems in Underserved Populations"
The unifying theme of this dissertation is the application of decision analytic methods to diverse public health problems...
Dissertation Title："Policy Modeling and Economic Evaluation of Tuberculosis Control"
Tuberculosis (TB), a curable disease, kills nearly 2 million people annually. Approximately 80% of these deaths occur in 23 “high-burden” countries. The past decade has...