Browsing by FAS Department "Health Policy"
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Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics
(2015-04-24)Imperfect information is a pervasive feature of health care markets. Therefore, measuring the quality and value of health care services may inform efforts to improve health care delivery. This dissertation explores several ... -
Network Administrative Organizations: Improving the Performance of Health Care Networks in a Developing Country Context
(2016-09-20)Network administrative organizations (NAOs) are a form of network governance where an external entity centrally manages the activities of firms participating in a network, including simultaneous management of multiple ... -
Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation
(2018-05-15)Health care spending growth challenges the budgets of governments, businesses, and families. In 2015, one in every six dollars spent in the U.S. economy was related to health care – twice the share in 1980. The rapid growth ... -
Policy and Methods in Health Services Research
(2016-09-13)This dissertation consists of two policy papers and one methods paper, all grounded in applied, empirical health-services research. The first two papers concern the influence of medical underwriting in the market for ... -
The Politics of Healthcare Quality
(2015-05-26)Improving the quality of care provided by the U.S. healthcare system is an important societal goal. Policymakers who wish to operationalize this goal must navigate an increasingly polarized health policymaking environment. ... -
The Promise and Peril of Using the Law to Promote Ethical Outcomes in Health and Healthcare
(2016-05-09)NOTA: NOT A GOOD ACT FOR TISSUES TO FOLLOW The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA) articulates the U.S. federal policy for organ transplantation. It seeks to ensure equitable allocation of donor organs and ... -
Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Insurance Coverage
(2015-05-12)The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and expenditures among children and young adults. In Chapter 1, I evaluate the clinical and economic benefits ... -
Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention
(2015-05-18)This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation in health care spending), and public health (the ... -
Social Ties and Health: An Analysis of Patient-Doctor Trust and Network-Based Public Health Interventions Through Randomized Experiments and Simulations
(2016-05-16)Humans are social creatures, bound by relationships. This dissertation investigates the structure and function of such interpersonal ties in two different contexts: patient-doctor trust and the diffusion of public health ... -
The Partial Teammate: Managing Informal Collaborations in Contemporary Health Care Teams
(2018-09-16)Health care teams have grown more complex and their boundaries less clear over time, leaving much of care delivery to informal collaborations between “partial” teammates – those who roles are ambiguous and informal, but ... -
The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate
(2018-05-13)Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any legal systems or other social institutions; instead, they ... -
Three Field Experiments on Incentives for Health Workers
(2015-05-19)The economic study of incentives in firms has traditionally focused on one type of incentive—pecuniary—and one causal mechanism—the direct effect of incentives on effort. This dissertation uses three randomized field ... -
Understanding Mental Health Care Use and Outcomes Among Individuals With Reduced Access to Care
(2020-05-14)Many individuals in the United States do not have access to adequate health care. Reduced access to care contributes to physical and mental health inequities experienced by vulnerable populations. In this thesis, I studied ... -
Understanding Policy Opportunities to Improve Health in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities
(2018-05-15)In this dissertation, I examine three settings where public policies can influence population health: schools, neighborhoods, and communities. Children and adolescents face significant barriers to achieving a healthy weight ... -
Using Empirical Data to Evaluate Strategies to Improve Women's Health
(2016-05-16)My three papers evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of clinical and policy strategies to improve women’s health, focusing on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in the U.S. and maternal health care in a ... -
Variation in Quality and Costs of Care Across Physicians and Its Determinants
(2016-05-06)This dissertation evaluates one of the key determinants of health care quality and costs – practice patterns of physicians. For decades, rapid health care spending growth and suboptimal quality of care have been fundamental ...