Dissertation Title： "Do Newer Prescription Drugs Pay for Themselves? Searching for Appropriate Empirical Methodologies"
Newer and more expensive drugs account for a large proportion of the recent rapid growth of prescription drug spending. However, if use...
Dissertation Title： "Gastric Cancer Prevention Policy: The Economic and Population Impacts of Helicobacter pylori Screening"
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, with over 65% of all cases occurring in developing countries...
Dissertation Title： "Individual, Clinical, and Contextual Factors Affecting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Quality"
Current research indicates that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the risk factors, incidence, and...
Dissertation Title： "New Frameworks for Hospital Quality and Value Profiling"
The rapid expansion of payment models that incorporate information on individual providers' quality and efficiency of care has brought increasing scrutiny to performance...
Dissertation Title： "Employment, Health Insurance, and Health Care for Vulnerable Populations: Early Retirees, Low-Income Adults, and Racial/Ethnic Minorities"
In the first paper, I examine the potential consequences of the recent decline in employer...
Dissertation Title： "Disability and Physical Functioning in the Elderly"
Self-reported disability among the elderly population declined over the past 25 years. Since the share of elderly living with chronic disease increased and improvements in...
Dissertation Title： "Safety Climate in US Hospitals: Its Measurement, Variation, and Relationship to Organizational Safety Performance"
Patient safety problems remain common in healthcare organizations. Drawing on lessons from high reliability...
Dissertation Title: "Gender and Health: The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Health"
The medical literature presents many examples of differences in health care use by men and women. The roots of these differences include biological, social, and...
Dissertation Title： "Innovation and Incentives in Pharmaceutical Research and Development"
Research and development (R&D) in the pharmaceutical industry requires significant investment over long periods of time, with uncertain outcomes. This dissertation...
Dissertation Title："Continuity and Team Approaches to Care: Effects on Physician-Patient Relationship Quality, Patients’ Experiences, and the Technical Quality of Care"
Team approaches to care are increasingly being considered critical to improving quality...