Dissertation Title: "Infectious Disease Policy in the Era of Antibiotic Drug Resistance: Decision Analytic and Historical Perspectives"
In the United States and abroad, infectious diseases constitute a significant public health problem. Costly new disease...
Dissertation Title："Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention"
New medical technologies have the potential to improve health outcomes substantially and cost-effectively, if used appropriately. This dissertation uses the...
Dissertation Title: "Social Ties and Health: An Analysis of Patient-Doctor Trust and Network-Based Public Health Interventions Through Randomized Experiments and Simulations"
This dissertation investigates the structure and function of interpersonal ties...
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: "Chronic Illness, Depression, and the Patient-Provider Relationship: Toward a Model of Biopsychosocial Care"
Chronic medical conditions are the leading cause of disability in the United States, account for 70 percent of all deaths...
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: "Quality Improvement for Depression: Organizational and Provider Factors"
Improving the quality of depression treatment in the primary care setting is an important yet elusive goal. Few individuals with depression receive adequate...
Dissertation Title: "Examining Changes in Mental Health Care by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-1992 to 2001-2003"
Using data from the 1990-1992 National Comorbidity Survey (Time 1) and the 2001-2003 National Comorbidity Survey – Replication (Time 2), this...
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...
Dissertation Title: "Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US"
Infertility is a common problem in the US, affecting approximately 1 in 8 couples of childbearing age, or over 7 million women nationwide. But...
Dissertation Title： "Toward a Better Understanding of HIV Risk among Young South Africans: Risk Perceptions and the Risk of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships"
South Africa is in the midst of a severe HIV epidemic and prevention efforts to date have had only...
Dissertation Title: "Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention"
This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation...