Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Health economics"
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Decision Modeling to Inform Resource Prioritization: Methods and Applications
(2022-05-13)This dissertation is comprised of three chapters where I investigated the following policy and methodological questions in health decision science: the potential value of improvement in acute stroke quality measures in the ... -
Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors
(2014-06-06)This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between adverse events ... -
Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior
(2023-03-14)Improving the quality of care is a major objective of health care systems, yet its determinants remain poorly understood. Across three quasi-experimental studies, this dissertation examines how health care quality is ... -
Strategic Behavior Among Provider Organizations in Risk-Sharing Contracts
(2022-06-06)Medicare implemented population-based risk-sharing payment models that encouraged otherwise separate providers to collaborate and form Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In contrast to fee-for-service payment, ACOs ...