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："The Effect of Market Reforms and Ownership Choice on the Quality of Care in Hospitals"
This thesis explores how market reforms in the third party payer system and hospitals' choice of ownership status affect the quality of care in...
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: "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: "Stretching the Safety Net: Child Participation in Public Insurance and the State of Community Health Centers"
Non-participation by children eligible for public insurance programs in the United States has been a persistent dilemma for...
Dissertation Title: "Health Inequality: Definition, Measurement and Determinants"
Health inequality is defined as differences in health status across individuals in a population. I present a conceptual framework for the measurement of health inequality...
Dissertation Title: "Improving the Comparability of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses"
To compare cost-effectiveness ratios across studies, we must have some assurance that the analyses that produced the ratios used similar methods. Findings of methodological...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Comparisons in Health Services Research"
Comparisons of service use and outcomes data across providers, across regions and over time are made to assess performance and to guide resource allocation in health care systems...
Dissertation Title: "Firearms: Storage and Use at Home and Use in Suicides by Children"
Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people are killed with firearms, and many more are injured. The three papers which make up this dissertation...