Economics

Government

Philip Clarke and colleagues examined patient-level data for over 11,000 participants with type 2 diabetes from 20 countries and find that major complications of diabetes significantly increased hospital use and costs across settings. Background: Diabetes imposes a substantial burden globally in...

This paper presents the results of Phase 3 of The RETURN Project, a European Study which aimed to reduce long term absenteeism in the workplace. Phases 1 and 2 have been described in detail elsewhere. The Study adopted an iterative approach that explored LTA from three different perspectives:...

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine(1) whether population mortality or child mortality better forecasts fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a...

BACKGROUND: The Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF) is dedicated to support research related to all aspects of health and health services in Hong Kong. We evaluated the fund's outcomes and explored factors associated with the translation of research findings to changes in health...

In this dissertation we present mathematical models that help answer health policy questions relating to HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV), and analyze bias in Markov models of disease progression. We begin by developing a Markov decision process model that examines the timing of testing and treatment...

This dissertation aims at developing and testing a new method that can better capture preferences for multistate health profiles. The motivation arose from the failure of the QALY (Quality-Adjusted Life Year) model in adequately capturing preferences in multistate health profiles. The current...

This dissertation brings health policy forward to the macroeconomic arena and explores how policy reforms impact the U.S. economy and well-being of the people in the long run. This research builds a stochastic overlapping generations (OLG) model and applies it in a dynamic general equilibrium...