Dissertation Title: "Prediction with Systematically Missing Data: Methods for Health Plan Payment and Cancer Stage Classification"
Missing data is a common barrier in health services research and has important implications for both health plan payment...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Mental Health Care Use and Outcomes among Individuals with Reduced Access to Care"
Many individuals in the United States do not have access to adequate health care. Reduced access to care contributes to physical and...
Dissertation Title: "Methods for Evaluating and Improving Plan Payment Risk Adjustment and Plan Defaults in Medicare Part D"
This dissertation develops new methods for evaluating and improving risk adjustment formulas used in health plan payment and...
Dissertation Title: “Housing Markets and Health Outcomes”
A prominent theory holds that disparities in health are driven in part by segregation and by the resulting disparities in neighborhood conditions where people live. Yet, reversing segregation has...