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Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2015-02)
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters‐in‐law ...
Implementation of Evidence-based Practice Within a Physician-led Quality Improvement Collaborative: A Multimethod Analysis of Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation.
(2015)
In this dissertation, I have reported on a multimethod study of the barriers and facilitators to implementation of imaging appropriateness criteria, an evidence-based practice to improve the use of imaging for prostate ...
Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented
(ElsevierWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Home health care expenditures were the fastest growing part of Medicare from 2001–2009, despite the implementation of prospective payment. Prior research has shown that home health agencies adopted two specific strategies ...
Mitigating Risk: Smartphone Notifications, Adaptive Surveying, and Genetics.
(2015)
Modern information technologies have revolutionized how we can study risk taking. I leverage datasets produced by three of these technologies to investigate the mitigation of risk associated with obesity, saving for ...