Dissertation Title: "The Infant Mechanical Ventilator: Time to Kill The Technology Overkill?"
Background. As a result of advances in medical treatment, fewer infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) now require positive pressure mechanical...
Dissertation Title： "The Environmental and Safety Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickup Trucks"
The composition of the passenger vehicle fleet in the US has been undergoing a major change. Sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks...
Dissertation Title： "Quality of Cardiac Surgical Care in Ontario, Canada"
In this dissertation, a comprehensive study was undertaken to study a number of issues related to the quality of cardiac surgical care in Ontario, Canada.
In the first paper,...
Dissertation Title： "Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and around the World"
The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effects of policies and platforms for global surgical delivery on health, impoverishment, and inequity, and to determine how...
Dissertation Title: "Trust and Agency: The Patient-Physician Relationship in the Era of Managed Care"
Trust is essential in social life. Interpersonal relationships are complex and often unpredictable, and as such, trust minimizes the cognitive and...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Vulnerable Populations"
This dissertation examines the impact of barriers to accessing care on the medical utilization incurred by vulnerable groups of patients.
Paper 1: This paper measures the health effects of a...