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Alcohol consumption and body weight
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National ...
Examining General Managers in the North American Professional Sport Context: Upper Echelons and Logics of Action as Determinants of Performance.
(2012)
This study integrates and extends the literature on upper echelons theory (UET) and institutional theory by investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision making in the North American professional sport context. ...
Essays on Information Technology and Organizational Form in the Health Care Industry.
(2012)
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over physicians’ actions and resources and thereby enable efficiency gains, including implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives, ...
Essays on Long-Term Care and Aging.
(2008)
This dissertation contains three empirical papers on important health policy issues. The first paper looks at the effect of changes in levels of Medicare home health care services on the informal care use of disabled, ...
Factors Affecting Consumers' Responses to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
(2008)
Pharmaceutical companies utilize Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising to generate consumer discussions with physicians and increase prescriptions. The dissertation seeks to answer a question not fully addressed in the ...