Dissertation Title： "Essays on Consumer Behavior in Health Care"
Consumer use of information and whether consumers make decisions that are in their own best interest have important implications for the quality and efficiency of the health care system. This...
Dissertation Title: "Market Dynamics and Health Care for the Uninsured"
This dissertation investigates trends in health care for the uninsured and the role of market-level factors in determining their access to and use of care.
The first chapter considers...
Dissertation Title: "The Application of Decision Analytic Methods to Diverse Public Health Problems in Underserved Populations"
The unifying theme of this dissertation is the application of decision analytic methods to diverse public health problems...
Dissertation Title："Conflicts of Interest among Oncology Clinical Trial Investigators and among Patient Advocacy Organizations, and Patient Preferences and Health Care Disparities"
The first paper is entitled "Relationships Between Authorship Contributions...
Dissertation Title："Responses to the Use of Public Health Authority"
The potential uses of public health authority are broad. They range from smaller powers, such as prohibiting smoking in the workplace, to greater powers, such as large scale quarantine or...
Dissertation Title："Polarized Politics, Public Opinion, and Health Reform"
This dissertation addresses two major health policy issues that have been debated in recent years – expanding insurance coverage to uninsured individuals and providing prescription...
Dissertation Title: "Work Process Failure and Organizational Learning in Health Care Delivery Settings"
This dissertation examines behavioral influences on the emergence and management of work process failure in health care delivery organizations. In...
Dissertation Title: "Efficiency and Equity Concerns for HIV Treatment Scale-up in Developing Countries"
HIV disease, a life-threatening but treatable illness, kills approximately 2 million individuals annually and about 2.7 million new infections occur...
Dissertation Title: "Ensuring the Health of Vulnerable Populations in the United States: Intersections of Politics and Public Policy"
This dissertation examines two major health policy issues in the United States: the nature of public attitudes about...
Dissertation Title: "'Everything for Everybody'? An Examination of Organizational Scope in the Hospital Industry"
In light of contemporary characterizations of the American hospital as an “everything for everybody” institution, this dissertation examines...