Dissertation Title： "Hospital Quality and Patient Trust in Care for Colorectal Cancer"
Quality of care has been of growing importance to U.S. health care researchers and policy makers. There is a widespread desire to improve medical outcomes and enhance...
Dissertation Title： "Physician Experiences and Evaluations of Managed Care Organizations: Perceived Organizational Support in Health Care"
Physicians are increasingly working in managed care organizations. At the same time these organizations apply some...
Dissertation Title： "Individual, Clinical, and Contextual Factors Affecting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Quality"
Current research indicates that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the risk factors, incidence, and...
Dissertation Title： "Disability and Physical Functioning in the Elderly"
Self-reported disability among the elderly population declined over the past 25 years. Since the share of elderly living with chronic disease increased and improvements in...
Dissertation Title： "Toward a Better Understanding of HIV Risk among Young South Africans: Risk Perceptions and the Risk of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships"
South Africa is in the midst of a severe HIV epidemic and prevention efforts to date have had only...
Dissertation Title： "Assessing Patient-Reported Quality in Medical Group Practices: An Analysis of Data from the National Field Test of the Group-Level CAHPS Instrument"
There is growing interest in measuring the quality of healthcare provided by medical...
Dissertation Title: "Gender and Health: The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Health"
The medical literature presents many examples of differences in health care use by men and women. The roots of these differences include biological, social, and...
Dissertation Title: "Selection in the Medicare Program"
This dissertation uses data from the Medicare Managed Care and Fee For Service versions of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) surveys to examine market, plan, and individual...
Dissertation Title："Continuity and Team Approaches to Care: Effects on Physician-Patient Relationship Quality, Patients’ Experiences, and the Technical Quality of Care"
Team approaches to care are increasingly being considered critical to improving quality...
Dissertation Title："Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention"
New medical technologies have the potential to improve health outcomes substantially and cost-effectively, if used appropriately. This dissertation uses the...