Browsing by FAS Department "Health Policy"
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Building and Evaluating a Surveillance System for Bicycle Crashes and Injuries
(2016-05-19)For cities aiming to create a useful surveillance system for bicycle injuries, a common challenge is that city crash reporting is scattered, faulty, or non-existent. In chapter 1, I document some of the lessons learned in ... -
Chronic Illness and Public Health: Evaluating Influential Intersections Between Politics and Policy
(2017-05-13)Public health emphasizes preventing the onset of disease and detecting disease in its early stages. This focus has cultivated interest in how health information is presented and the public’s responsiveness to information ... -
Competition and Selection in Health Insurance Markets
(2015-05-08)Competition in US health insurance markets is low and has declined in recent years. Insufficient competition is often assumed to increase plan premiums or decrease benefit quality, but the latter has been difficult to ... -
Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecurity, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda
(2015-05-18)This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and behaviors among low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a particular focus on Uganda. Paper 1 presents a systematic review ... -
Delivering Across Boundaries: Social and Structural Features of Service Integration
(2018-05-14)The ability to integrate services across settings and time is increasingly important for healthcare delivery organizations. This dissertation explores the organizational structures and social behaviors that enable service ... -
Delivering the Right Amount of Care – Sometimes Less Is More
(2017-05-15)New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases, these improvements cause unintended consequences by leading to the diagnosis of indolent or otherwise ... -
Drivers of Physician Productivity and Performance: The Role of Queuing Systems, Relative Performance Feedback, and Cohort Turnover
(2017-02-10)This dissertation investigates how operational choices about the design of work systems in health care settings impact the way physicians deliver care. Across three studies, I examine the following potential drivers of ... -
Essays in Maternal and Child Health Economics
(2018-05-11)Overall, this dissertation studies important issues around the early years of our lives, both in developing and developed countries. With coauthors I first look at how maternity and neonatal care are influenced by what ... -
Essays on Insurance Policy and Provider Choice
(2018-05-15)This dissertation includes one essay on the role of reputation on patients’ choice of providers, one on the effect of Medicaid expansion on hospital finances and strategy, and one observational study on the heterogeneity ... -
Evaluating Health Interventions Over Time: Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design
(2016-08-29)Single interrupted time series (ITS) is a quasi-experimental evaluation design used frequently in the health policy literature. This manuscript investigates the validity of single ITS through two within-study comparisons ... -
Evaluating Legal Interventions Designed to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes
(2016-09-12)Relatively recent recognition of the significant burden of behavioral health disorders has elevated their status as public health issues in need of population-level interventions. This dissertation focuses on evaluating ... -
Evaluating Strategies for Achieving Global Collective Action on Transnational Health Threats and Social Inequalities
(2015-09-30)This dissertation presents three studies that evaluate different strategies for addressing transnational health threats and social inequalities that depend upon or would benefit from global collective action. Each draws ... -
Grey Matters: Political-Economic Analyses of Long-Term Care
(2018-08-08)This dissertation includes two quantitative studies on Medicaid long-term care (LTC) coverage in the United States, and one qualitative study that draws lessons from Germany’s LTC system for Canada. Chapter one is a political ... -
Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and Around the World
(2015-05-07)Health improvement and financial ruin are often inexorably linked. Nearly 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical [1], and over 30 million annual cases of financial ruin are attributable to accessing surgery [2]. ... -
How does managed care manage care? Evidence from public insurance
(2016-05-17)In the United States, the fraction of individuals with public insurance is growing and the policies and markets that serve them are changing. Over two-thirds of Medicaid recipients are now enrolled in managed care organizations ... -
Identifying High-Value Lifestyle Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
(2016-05-14)This dissertation evaluates lifestyle strategies for the management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). In Chapter 1, I systematically review and summarize the evidence of the ... -
Improving Health Care Delivery: Patient Care Integration and Manager Commitment
(2016-05-17)This dissertation investigates how patient-perceived integrated care and manager commitment influence the improvement and integration of health care delivery. Using survey instruments, across three studies I examine potential ... -
Improving Reproductive Health: Assessing Determinants and Measuring Policy Impacts
(2016-05-11)In this thesis, I investigate policies and programs to improve reproductive health. My thesis makes a substantive contribution to reproductive health policy and a methodological contribution to quasi-experimental research. ... -
Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US
(2016-04-22)Infertility is a common problem in the US, affecting approximately 1 in 8 couples of childbearing age, or over 7 million women nationwide. But while infertility affects women from across the socio-economic spectrum, it is ... -
Is Doing More, Doing Better? Basic Versus Advanced Life Support Ambulances for Medical Emergencies
(2015-05-04)Deficiencies in the quality of pre-hospital care constitute a serious public health problem that has largely been neglected by the scientific community. Trauma and complications of acute disease produce medical emergencies ...