Dissertation Title: Making IT work: Essays in health IT implementation and integration”
This multi-method dissertation explores organizational factors that impact implementation and advanced use of health information technologies (IT). The main objective...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on Health Policy: How Racism Impedes Progress”
Health policy and racism are extremely intertwined in American politics. Racism is not only a social ill, but also contributes to poor health outcomes for minorities. Major events...
Dissertation Title: “Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes”
Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility...
Dissertation Title: “Pride, Pressures, and Politics of Place: Essays on the Influence of Rurality and Geography on Group Identity, Health Care Access, and Health Communications”
Place matters. Where individuals reside has a substantial impact on their life...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Economics of Health”
This dissertation consists of three essays on the economics of health.
Chapter 1: This paper studies the effects of shutting down prescribers, dispensers, and distributors that inappropriately handle...
Dissertation Title: “Housing Markets and Health Outcomes”
A prominent theory holds that disparities in health are driven in part by segregation and by the resulting disparities in neighborhood conditions where people live. Yet, reversing segregation has...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on the regulation of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry”
Regulatory policy for pharmaceuticals seeks to balance high quality evidence generation with access. The papers in this dissertation interrogate this balance by focusing...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets
Chapter 1: National trends in integration between medical practices and pharmacies for self-administered drugs from 2011 to 2019
Physician practices and health systems are increasingly launching...
Dissertation Title: "Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis"
This dissertation explores ways to account for heterogeneity in health decision analysis, including: the integration of individual-level risk factors into a chronic disease...