Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Health sciences"
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Assessing relationships between discrimination and health: emphasis on measurement and methodology
(2021-07-12)Research investigating relationships between discrimination and health has grown over the past two decades, establishing a body of evidence that documents the adverse health outcomes associated with inequitable systems. ... -
At the Heart of the Genome: Rare Genetic Variation, Cardiovascular Disease, and Therapy
(2014-06-06)Studies of large families with inherited single gene disorders identified a role of rare genetic variation as a cause of disease and enabled gene-based diagnosis. The increasing availability of population-scale genomic ... -
Essays in Development and Health Economics
(2014-06-06)In this collection of essays I study individuals' health related decision-making and the consequences of those decisions for health and labor market productivity. -
Functional organization of the circadian timing system
(2014-02-25)The circadian timing system establishes daily rhythms in behavior and physiology throughout the body, ensuring that functions like activity, sleep and hormone release are appropriately timed. Research suggests that his ... -
Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care
(2024-03-12)This dissertation investigates drivers of variation in health care utilization and quality, with a focus on physician decision-making and patient outcomes. The first chapter examines the distribution of new physician quality ... -
Health monitoring with voice analysis: Acoustic correlates of heart failure, irregular pitch periods, and dysphonia
(2021-01-12)Voice and speech production relies on complex interactions of linguistic and cognitive systems, neuromotor pathways, respiration, and airflow through the vocal tract. Voice can reveal disruptions to any of those systems, ... -
Housing Markets and Health Outcomes
(2023-04-26)This dissertation consists of three chapters on the relationship between housing markets and health outcomes. Chapter 1. Can Fair Share Policies Expand Neighborhood Choice? Evidence from Bypassing Exclusionary Zoning under ... -
Iron Nutrition, Hematologic Status and Infections in Tanzan
(2021-09-21)Background Disordered iron metabolism underlies the pathogenesis of iron deficiency, anemia of inflammation and elevated iron status. These iron disorders are common and they are associated with important consequences ... -
The Making of the Microbial Body, 1900s-2012
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines how the relationship between microbes and the human body has been reconfigured over the course of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents a ... -
On Causal Inference in Real World Settings
(2023-05-12)In the present dissertation, we consider three classical and yet modern topics in causal inference -- surrogate markers, multi-source federated learning, and sensitivity analysis. In each case, present-day obstacles in ... -
Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes
(2023-06-01)Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) care. As elsewhere in the healthcare system, racial inequities exist in SNF ... -
Panacea: Making the World’s Biomedical Information Computable to Develop Data Platforms for Machine Learning
(2022-05-23)The marriage between healthcare and artificial intelligence systems has long been coveted — by computer scientists and medical researchers alike — as a grand challenge to progress the frontier of health. Given the explosion ... -
Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies
(2024-01-11)In the United States, the path from having a medical condition to receiving medical care for that condition is a multistep process involving multiple stakeholders and professionals. In particular, for the vast majority of ...