Dissertation Title： "Evaluating Infant Experience Under Medicaid Managed Care"
Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous shift of the Medicaid population into managed care, from less than 10% participating in 1990 to nearly 60% in 2001. This...
Dissertation Title: "Political Determinants of Health Policy: The Roles of Public Opinion and Private Interests"
The political environment is a key factor in efforts to sustain and reform public programs serving low-income and elderly populations. These...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Value of Information Analysis in Health Risk Management"
Value of information (VOI) analysis is a decision analytic approach for evaluating the benefit of collecting additional information to reduce or eliminate uncertainty...
Dissertation Title: "Demographic Forecasting"
A number of important public policy decisions rest heavily on the ability to forecast certain cross-sectional time series. In this thesis we consider the task of forecasting time series of all causes and cause...
Dissertation Title: "Decision Analysis in the Evaluation of Breast Cancer Treatment"
Advances in breast cancer treatment have improved the prognosis of many women with this disease. Whether a patient faces a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer or more...
Dissertation Title: "Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Endometriosis Pain"
Endometriosis is a benign gynecologic disorder that can cause potentially debilitating pain in women of reproductive age. Clinical evidence does not point to a single best...