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History and Human Capital in Developing Economies
(2022)
This dissertation studies the historical causes and economic consequences of poor health -- an important component of human capital -- in developing countries, as well as the policies that can remedy its negative impacts. ...
Nearby Nature and Mental Wellbeing: A Designer's Perspective.
(2015)
The beneficial role of nearby nature settings in mental wellbeing is particularly important in the urban context where residents are dealing with numerous distractions and sources of stress in their daily life. Given the ...
Using a Massive Open Online Course Format to Engage Health Professions Students Regarding Health Systems Science and the U.S. Healthcare System
(2019)
As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes significant transformation, providers who have been traditionally viewed as the nexus of care delivery inside the healthcare system, are struggling to effectively participate in ...
The Environmental and Population Health Impacts of Road Urban Transportation in the Puget Sound Region, WA
(2019)
The preference for private vehicles over public transportation and physically active modes of transportation in urban areas poses important environmental and public health challenges. On-road motor vehicles are a major ...
Sustainable Diets Among Sociodemographically Diverse Populations in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)
Agriculture is responsible for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) globally and is the single largest contributor to climate change. Ensuring Americans eat a sustainable diet, one that provides economic, ...
Three Essays in Health Economics
(2018)
This dissertation contains three essays that explore how nursing homes respond to public reporting, changes in regulation and payments, as well as heterogeneity across organizational forms. More specifically, I focus on ...
Hospital Networks of Shared Patients and Engagement in Health Information Exchange
(2017)
Although the healthcare delivery system is composed of an array of organizations that are linked through important, enduring, and complex ties, the healthcare delivery system is rarely explicitly conceptualized or measured ...
Using Prospective Illness Surveillance Data to Quantify, Characterize, and Mitigate the Risk of Childcare-Associated Respiratory Disease
(2021)
Young children experience high rates of morbidity and mortality associated with acute respiratory illness (ARI) and are noted contributors of ARI risk to their households as well. It is also well established that ARI risk ...
Invisible Information, Unseen Connections: An Exploration of the Hidden Relationships that can Shape Data
(2022)
Datasets often reflect complex and nuanced relationships which can be difficult to detect or fully represent with traditional epidemiological methods. This may be problematic as it can hinder further analyses, or give the ...
Estimation of Change-Points in Spline Models
(2022)
In this dissertation thesis, we present novel, rigorously studied and computationally efficient methods for change-points estimation in different spline models, including linear spline models, generalized linear spline ...