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： "The New Medicare Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Impacts on Payments, Services and Quality of Care"
In 1998 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began phasing in a new prospective payment...
Dissertation Title： "The Consumer’s Role in Nursing Home Quality"
My thesis focuses on the consumer's role in nursing home quality. Using five years of data from Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1998-2002), the first chapter explores whether...
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: "Investigating Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use and Harm: Findings and Methods"
This dissertation consists of three chapters, each a separate paper, that taken together examine policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of tobacco use in...
Dissertation Title: "Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Health Care and Health Plans Using Consumer Reports and Ratings"
Interest in comparing consumer assessments of quality across health plans has grown. The Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO...
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: "Treatment for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder"
Treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children commands our attention because the disorder is the most commonly diagnosed and...
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...