Dissertation Title: "Implications of Rising Medical Care Spending"
Personal health care spending accounts for a growing share of the economy and creates pressure on individual and government budgets. Rising spending creates policy challenges because the...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Variation in the Correlates of Health Care Satisfaction and Beliefs"
Public satisfaction and approval are important components of determining the performance, stability, and legitimacy of health systems. Meeting public...
Dissertation Title: "Political and Fiscal Forces in State Health Policy"
States play a crucial role in financing, administering, and delivering health services in the United States health care system. In recent years, state health policy has been the...
Dissertation Title: "Pharmaceutical Promotion in an Age of Consumerism"
This thesis examines the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) and traces the evolution of pharmaceutical promotion and its regulation by the Food and Drug Administration...
Dissertation Title: "Three Studies on Policies to Reduce Medicare Drug Spending"
This thesis consists of three related studies on policies to reduce prescription drug spending by Medicare beneficiaries. The policy context is the Medicare Prescription...
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: "Political Institutions, Participation and Media Evaluations: Influence on Health Care Policy"
This thesis is composed of three distinct papers. Paper one explores the potential for a sensitization effect in research evaluations...
Dissertation Title: "Technological Innovation and Policy Responses in Health Care”
This dissertation consists of three papers, two quantitative and one mixed-methods. My first paper uses cross-sectional and logistic regression analyses of survey data to...
Dissertation Title: "Obesity Policy and the Public"
Globally, obesity has reached epidemic proportions affecting more than 300 million adults. This dissertation focuses on adult obesity and uses several interdisciplinary methods to explore the...
Dissertation Title: "The Political Economy of Mental Health Parity"
This thesis examines behavioral responses to parity regulation from the perspectives of the health plan, the consumer, and politicians and interest groups. Parity regulations aim to...