Dissertation Title： "Hospital Quality and Patient Trust in Care for Colorectal Cancer"
Quality of care has been of growing importance to U.S. health care researchers and policy makers. There is a widespread desire to improve medical outcomes and enhance...
Dissertation Title： "Who Counts? The General and the Particular in Health Care Policy Making"
It has been a dilemma to count and balance the general and the particular in health care policy making. This thesis aims to explore this issue by addressing the...
Dissertation Title： "Managed Care and the Changing Hospital Industry in the 1990s"
The first chapter examines the evidence for managed care plans' price bargaining with hospitals. The observed lower prices in managed care plans could be consistent with...
Dissertation Title： "The Dynamics of Public and Private Health Insurance in the United States"
The dissertation considers the dynamics of three types of health insurance coverage – employer-provided plans, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance...
Dissertation Title: "Selection in the Medicare Program"
This dissertation uses data from the Medicare Managed Care and Fee For Service versions of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) surveys to examine market, plan, and individual...
Dissertation Title："Understanding Latino Health Policy and Barriers to Care"
Little is known about how cultural changes influence the Latino experience in healthcare. Issues such as generational status, nativity, English proficiency and age of arrival at...
Dissertation Title："Empirical Essays on Major Forces in Health, Population, and Development"
This dissertation investigates several open empirical questions in health, population, and development.
The first chapter addresses ongoing debate about whether or...
Dissertation Title: "Policy Assessment of Medical Imaging Utilization: Methods and Applications"
We developed and applied decision-analytic methods to two controversial uses of diagnostic imaging technologies: diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with...
Dissertation Title: "Community and Environmental Determinants of Child Health"
The first and third papers of this dissertation provide evidence on one piece of a broad debate over decentralizing health sectors in developing countries: the popular but...
Dissertation Title: "Explaining the Secular Trends in Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality with an Empirically Calibrated Microsimulation Model"
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the U...