Dissertation Title： "Effect of Depression on Diabetes and Cardiac Outcomes"
This dissertation is comprised of three papers that explore the relationship between depression and medical disorders, specifically diabetes and heart disease. Each paper focuses...
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： "Evaluating Racial Differences in Quality of Diabetes Care and Self-Management Practice in an HMO"
Racial disparities in health care continue to be a growing problem in the U.S. and a prominent health policy issue. This dissertation...
Dissertation Title： "Patient Safety Challenges: An Inpatient, Outpatient and Patient Satisfaction Example"
This dissertation is composed of three separate studies that examined three different patient safety challenges.
In the first paper, "The safety of...
Dissertation Title："Unaffordable Care: Health Care Access and Economic Burden in the Asia Pacific and U.S."
Out-of-pocket payments are an important source of health care financing in many countries. However, when care is unaffordable, patients either pay...
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: "Building and Evaluating a Surveillance System for Bicycle Crashes and Injuries"
Chapter 1: For cities aiming to create a useful surveillance system for bicycle injuries, a common challenge is that city crash reporting is scattered...
Dissertation Title: "Longitudinal Methods for Investigating Pharmaceutical Advertising, Adherence and Prior Authorization Policies"
In this dissertation, I use longitudinal methods to investigate three pharmaceutical policy topics.
The first paper examines...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Maternal Health Services: Characterizing Risks and Measuring Program and Policy Impacts"
This dissertation characterizes the relationship between two common perinatal conditions and measures effects of specific programs and...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Health Policy Research: Evaluation of Universal Health Insurance and Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research"
This dissertation consists of two empirical papers and one methods paper. The first two papers use...