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Health Policy and Management faculty conduct wide-ranging research that examines health policy and management issues, including access to health care, organization and administration of health care delivery, and financing and quality of care, from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, in historical and social context, and informed by empirical evidence.
Recent Faculty Publications
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Brown, Lawrence D.
Brown, L.D., The Amazing Non-collapsing U.S. Health Care System: Is Reform Finally at Hand? New England Journal of Medicine, 358:4, pp. 325-7, 2008.
Brown, L.D., Kraft, M. Katherine, Active living, the built environment, and the policy agenda, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 33:3, pp. 371-86, 2008.
Brown, L.D., Kraft, M. Katherine, Active living as an institutional challenge: lessons from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Celebrate Fitness" program, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 33: 3, pp. 497-523, 2008.
Brown, L.D., and Michael S. Sparer, Book Review: The Medicaid Enigma, Medicaid Politics and Policy, 1965–2007 by David G. Smith and Judith D. Moore, Health Affairs, 27:4, pp. 1187-1188, 2008.
D’Aunno Thomas
Kimberly, J.R, de Pouvourville, G. and D’Aunno, T. (eds.) The Globalization of Managerial Innovation: Patient Classification Systems in Health Care. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Pollack, H.A. and D’Aunno, T. Dosage patterns in methadone treatment: Results from a national survey, 1988-2005, Health Services Research, 2008.
Battilana, J. and T. D'Aunno. The Paradox of Embedded Agency: Straw-man Argument or Central Epistemological Issue? In Institutional Work: A New Agenda for Institutional Studies of Organization, T. Lawrence, R. Suddaby and B. Leca. (eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
D’Aunno, T., Kimberly, J.R. and de Pouvourville, G. The globalization of managerial innovation: Analyzing the diffusion of patient classification systems. In Kimberly, J.R, de Pouvourville, G. and D’Aunno T (eds.) The Globalization of Managerial Innovation: Patient Classification Systems in Health Care. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Ference, Thomas P.
Ference, T. P. and Thurman, P. W., MBA Fundamentals Strategy, New York: Kaplan, 2009.
Glied, Sherry A.
Glied, S., "Expanding SCHIP: A Down payment on Health Reform." Perspectives on Health Reform (Commonwealth Fund), 1222:1, pgs. 1-5, 2009.
Glied, S., “Just What the Doctor Ordered?: Two Candidates and Two Different Plans to Fix America’s Ailing Health Care System,” ISERP, vol. 5:1, Fall 2008, pg. 4.
Glied, S., “The Challenges of Implementing Health Reform through the Tax System,” Comments in Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance: Pitfalls and Promises, (Eds: Henry J. Aaron and Leonard E. Burman, Brookings Institution Press, 2008, pgs. 208-210.
Glied, S., and K. Janus, “Heggenhougen and Quah: International Encyclopedia of Public Health,” Managed Care, Vol. 4, pp. 195-202, Academic Press, San Diego, 2008.
Glied, S. and A. Lleras-Muney. “Technological Innovation and Inequality in Health” Demography, 45.3 (2008): 741-761.
Glied, S. Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption. Canadian Public Policy, 2008, vol. 34, issue 3, pages 345-358.
Glied, S. “Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity” in Exploring Social Insurance: Can A Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? edited by Colleen Flood, Mark Stabile, and Carolyn Tuohy. McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2008, pgs. 37-58.
Glied, S.A., Frank, Richard G. “Shuffling toward Parity: Bringing Mental Health Care under the Umbrella.” New England Journal of Medicine. 359:113-115, 2008.
Glied, S. “Public Health and Economics: Externalities, Rivalries, Excludability, and Politics” In The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health (Eds: James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008: 15-31.
Frank, R.G. and Sherry Glied. "What's Needed Next: A new federal Office of Mental Health Policy," American Prospect Special Report on Mental Illness, July/August, 2008. p. A24.
Glied, S., Irene Fraser, and William Encinosa. “Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction.” Health Services Research, Volume 43 Issue 5, pgs. 1781-1786 (Published Online: September 20, 2008).
Glied, S. “Universal coverage one head at a time--the risks and benefits of individual health insurance mandates.” New England Journal of Medicine. 358(15):1540-2, 2008.
Gebbie, K.M., B.M. Meier, S. Bakken, O. Carrasquillo, A. Formicola, S.W. Aboelela, S. Glied, and E. Larson. “Training for Interdisciplinary Health Research: Defining the Required Competencies.” Journal of Allied Health, Vol. 37, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 65-70.
Glied, S. Comments on Enthoven’s ‘The U.S. Experience with Managed Care and Managed Competition.” in Wanting it All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System edited by Jane Sneddon Little. Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: 127-134 (2008).
Glied, S., K. Jack, and J. Rachlin. “Women’s Health Insurance Coverage 1980-2005.” Women’s Health Issues. 18(1) January/February 2008: 7-16.
Isett, Kimberley R.
Isett, K.R., M.A. Burnam, B. Coleman-Beattie, P.S. Hyde, J.P. Morrissey, J.L. Magnabosco, C. Rapp, V. Ganju, and H.H. Goldman. 2008. The Role of State Mental Health Authorities in Managing Change for the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices. Community Mental Health Journal, 44(3): 195-211.
Isett, K.R., S. Topping, A.R. Ellis, and J.P. Morrissey. Managed Care and Provider Satisfaction in Mental Health Settings. Community Mental Health Journal. Accepted for publication October 2008.
Janus, Katharina
Janus, K., Amelung, V.E., Baker, L.C., Gaitanides, M., Schwartz, F.W., Rundall, T.G. (2008). Monetary and non-monetary drivers of physician job satisfaction – Insights from a cross-national comparative study, accepted for publication at Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 33(6): 1133-1167.
Janus, K., Amelung, V.E., Baker, L.C., Gaitanides, M., Rundall, T.G., Schwartz, F.W. (2009). Warum sind amerikanische Ärzte zufriedener? –Ergebnisse einer internationalen Studie unter Klinikärzten [Why are US physicians more satisfied than German physicians – Results of an international study among hospital physicians], in press at Das Gesundheitswesen [The Health Care System]. Das Gesundheitswesen, DOI 10.1055/s-0028-1119367 Gesundheitswesen 2009; 71: 1-8.
Amelung, V.E., Janus, K. (2008). Health Care vor der Wahl “The US health care system before the election,” GGW. Health Care and Society, 1(11): 22-28.
Amelung, V.E., Janus, K. (2008). Gesundheit vor der Wahl "The US health care system before the election“, Niedersächsisches Ärzteblatt. Physician’s Journal of Lower Saxony, 5/2008: 60-62.
Glied, S.A., Janus, K. (2008). Managed Care and Public Health, in: Heggenhougen, K. (ed) und Carrin, G. (Economics and Finance ed.), International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 1st edition, vol. 4, New York: Elsevier: 195-202.
Laugesen, Miriam
Research Papers
M.J. Laugesen, Forthcoming 2009. "Siren Song: Physicians and Medicare Fees." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (March issue)
M.J. Laugesen, R. Paul, H. Luft, W. Aubry, T. Ganiats. 2006. "Comparative Analysis of Health Insurance Mandates, 1949-2002." Health Services Research 41(3) 1081-1103.
G.F. Kominski, J. Ripps, M.l Laugesen, B. Cosway, and N. Pourat, 2006. "The California Cost and Coverage Model: Assessing the Cost of Mandated Benefits." Health Services Research 41(3):1027-1044.
M. Laugesen, 2005. "Why Some Market Reforms are More Legitimate than Others" Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law 30(December): 1065-1100. M. Beeuwkes-Buntin, J. Escarce, D. Goldman, H. Kan, M. J. Laugesen, and P. Shekelle. 2004. "Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What are the Causes?" Inquiry 41 (Spring): 8394.
M. l Laugesen and TRice. 2003. "Is the Doctor In? The Evolving Role of Organized Medicine in Health Policy." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 (April): 289-316
E.A. Miller, M. Laugesen, D. S. Lee, and S. Mick. 1998. "Emigration of New Zealand and Australian Physicians to the United States: Symptoms of the International Equity Problem." Health Policy 43:253-270.
P. Norris, P. Calcott, and M. Laugesen. 1998. "The Prescribing of New Anti-Depressants in New Zealand." New Zealand Family Physician (Journal of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners) 25 (2): 45-49. M. Laugesen and G. Salmond. 1994. "New Zealand health care: A Background." Health Policy 29:11-23.
G. Salmond, G. Mooney, and M. Laugesen. 1994. "Introduction to health care reform in New Zealand." Health Policy 29: 1-3.
Book Chapters
M.J. Laugesen and T. Rice. 2002. "Appendix: Overview ofthe Health Services Systems in Ten Developed Countries." In The Economics of Health Reconsidered (Second Edition) by Thomas Rice. Chicago: Health Administration Press, p. 275-305.
M. Laugesen. 2001. "The Institutional Context." In Health and Public Policy in New Zealand. Peter Davis and Toni Ashton (eds.), Auckland: Oxford University Press, p. 127-143.
MJ. Laugesen and T. Rice 2006. "Parartima: Episkopisi ton Systimaton Ygeionomikon Ypiresion se 10 Anaptygmenes Chores," in Thomas Rice, Ta Oikonomika tis Ugeias-Se Epanexetasi trans. by Nikos Roussos, introduction by Manos Matsaggannis, Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, p. 353-387. [Translation into Greek of 2002 publication with Thomas Rice] Edited Volumes, Reviews, and Commentaries
M. Laugesen. 1996. "Review of 'New Zealand Health Policy: A Comparative Study' by Robert Blank." Political Science 48 (1): 112-113.
G. Salmond, M. Laugesen, and K. Nelson. 1995. "The New Zealand health reforms after two years." Health Manager (3): 22-33. (Journal ofthe New Zealand Institute of Health Management and theAustralian College of Health Service Executives).
G. Salmond, G. Mooney, and M. Laugesen. (Guest Editors.) 1994. "Special Issue on New Zealand Health Reforms." Health Policy 29 (1-2): 1-173.
Reports
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2006. Analysis of SB1245: Cervical Cancer Screening. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of AB 1185: Chiropractic Services. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of AB 8: Mastectomies and Lymph Node Dissections. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of AB 213: Lymphedema Services. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of Senate Bill 572: Mental Health Parity. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of Senate Bill 573: Elimination of Intoxication Exclusion. Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
Kominski, G. F., J. C. Ripps, M. J. Laugesen, R. G. Cosway, and N. Pourat. 2004. "The California Cost and Coverage Model. An Analytic Tool for Examining the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates"
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Assembly Bill 438 (Osteoporosis Screening). Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Assembly Bill 547 (Ovarian Cancer Screening). Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Senate Bill 897 (Maternity Services) Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Senate Bill 1555 (Maternity Services). Oakland: University of California Office of the President. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004.
California Health Benefits Review Program Analysis of Senate Bill 1157(Elimination of Intoxication Exclusion). Oakland: University of California Office of the President.
M. Beeuwkes-Buntin, M. Laugesen, J. Escarce, D. Goldman, H. Kan, P. Shekelle. 2002. Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditure for Physicians' Services. RAND Report DRU-3142-AHRQ.
Crampton, P., Laugesen, M., 1995. The Use of Indexes of Need in Resource Allocation Formulas for Primary Health Care. Discussion Paper 3, Health Services Research Center, Victoria University of Wellington.
Working Papers/Papers in Preparation
Laugesen, M and R. Wada. Do Specialties Undervalue Primary Care Services? (Under review) Sabik, L, and M.J. Laugesen, Maternity Length of Stay Mandates: Labor Market Effects. (Under review)
Laugesen, MJ and A. Rabinowitz, Niche Players in Health Policy: Specialty Society Participation in Congressional Hearings, 1969-2002.
Laugesen, MJ and J. Yoon, R. Bastani, and J. Needleman. Why do some states adopt more mandated cancer screening benefits than others? Laugesen, M, K. Carameli, R. Mistry, J. Needleman, R. Bastani. State Policy Responses to the HPV Vaccine Since 2006.
Laugesen, MJ and T. Rice. Overview of the Health Services Systems in Ten Developed Countries for The Economics of Health Reconsidered (Third Edition) by Thomas Rice, under contract with the Health Administration Press.
Laugesen, MJ and S. Banducci. Public Opinion on European Integration of Health: The Role of Quality and Health Expenditure.
Laugesen, M and A. Vargas-Bustamante. 'Portability' and Cross Border Health Care: Conceptual Approaches and Lessons from Europe.
Bernstein, J., M. Gluck, and MJ. Laugesen. 2008. Public views on comparative effectiveness research in health coverage and reimbursement.
Liu, Nan
Liu, N., V. G. Kulkarni. (2008) Decomposition Property for Markov-modulated Queues with Applications to Warranty Management. Accepted for publication in Probability in the Engineering and InformationalSciences.
Liu, N.) S. Ziya, V. G. Kulkarni. (2008) Dynamic Scheduling of Outpatient Appointments under Patient No-shows and Cancellations. Under revision for resubmission to Manufacturing f.1 Service Operations Management.
Liu, N.) V. G. Kulkarni. (2008) Optimal Policies for Periodic Review Inventory Systems with Observation Costs. Under revision for resubmission to Operations Research.
Liu, N.) S. Ziya, V. G. Kulkarni. Optimal Design of an Appointment Scheduling System under Customer No-shows. Manuscript under preparation.
Shen, H., N. Gans, N. Liu, A. Mandelbaum. Agent Heterogeneity and Its Impact on Workforce Management. Manuscript under preparation.
Huang, B., N. Liu, M. Chandramouli. (2006) A GIS Supported Ant Algorithm for the Linear Feature Co:"Covering Problem with Distance Constraints. Decision Support Systems 42(2) 1063-1075.
Liu, N., B. Huang, M. Chandramouli. (2006) Optimal Siting of Fire Stations using GIS and ANT Algorithm. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 20(5) 361-369.
Muennig, Peter
Muennig P., Jia H, Lee R, Lubetkin E. Perceived ideal body weight as an independent predictor of mental and physical health. American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98 (3):501-6.
Muennig P., Health selection versus causation in the income gradient: What can we learn from graphical trends? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2008; 19(2):574-79.
Muennig P., The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease. BMC Public Health, 2008; 8:128.
Muennig P., Health consequences of declining incomes. JAMA. 2008;299(6):633-34.
Muennig P., Obesity-associated stigma and physiological markers of stress: evidence from the Dominican Republic. Stress and Health, 2008; pp pending.
Belani H., Muennig P., Cost-effectiveness of needle and syringe exchange for the prevention of HIV in New York City. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, 2008;7:229-240.
Choi H., Sell R., Lenert L., Muennig P., Goodman R, Gilliam FG, Wong J. Surgery for pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy. A decision analysis. JAMA 2008;300(21):2497-2505.
Muennig P., Schweinhart L, Montie J, Neidell M., The effect of a pre-kindergarten education intervention on adult health: 40-year follow up results of a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Public Health, 2009;99(8):TBA.
Braveman P., Egerter, S. (Multiple contributors, including Muennig, P.) Overcoming obstacles to health. Robert Wood Johnston Foundation. Available online at: http://www.commissiononhealth.org/Report.aspx?Publication=26244. Accessed 3/1/08.
Muennig, P. Decision Analytic Modeling. In: Heggenhougen, K., Ed, International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Academic Press, Oxford, 2008, 71-76.
Neidell, Matthew
“Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations.” Journal of Human Resources, 44(2):450-478 (2009).
“Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey,” with Janet Currie and Johannes Schmieder. Journal of Health Economics, in press.
“Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education,” with Jane Waldfogel. Review of Economics and Statistics, in press.
“Medical Technology Adoption, Uncertainty, and Irreversibilities: Is a Bird in the Hand Really Worth More than the Bush?” with Joshua Graff Zivin. Health Economics, in press.
“The effect of a pre-kindergarten education intervention on adult health: 40-year follow up results of a randomized controlled trial,” with Peter Muennig, Lawrence Schweinhart, and Jeanne Montie. American Journal of Public Health, in press.
“Does Pollution Increase School Absences?” with Janet Currie, Eric Hanushek, E. Megan Kahn, and Steven Rivkin. Review of Economics and Statistics, in press.
“Days of Haze: Environmental Information Disclosure and Intertemporal Avoidance Behavior,” with Joshua Graff Zivin. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
“The Economic Value of Teeth,” with Sherry Glied. Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
Rowe, John W.
Rowe JW, Brown-Stevenson T, Downey RL, Newhouse JP: "The Effect of Consumer Directed Health Plans on the Use of Preventive and Chronic Illness Services". Health Affairs, 27, no. 1 (2008): 113-120.
Rowe, JW: Approaching Interdisciplinary Research, in Kessel, F., Rosenfield, P.L. and Anderson, Norman B. (eds.): Interdisciplinary Research: Case Studies from Health and Social Science, pp. 3-9. New York, Oxford University Press. 2008.
Rowe, J W: Science, Health, and an Aging Society, in The Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society, pp. 112-115. Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
Fineberg, Harvey V., Bongaarts, John, Verkman, Lisa, Rowe, John W.: “Science, Health, and an Aging Society.” The Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society. Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008. 112-115.
Olshansky, S.J., Goldman, Dana, Zheng, Yuhui, Rowe, John W. “Aging in America in the 21st Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society.” Manuscript. Submitted, December 2008.
Rowe, John W. Resilience in Successful Aging and an Aging Society in New Frontiers in Resilient Aging: Life Strengths and Wellness in Later Life, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press. April, 2009. In press.
Rowe, J.W. ( Study Chair), Institute of Medicine ,. 2008. Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Sampat, Bhaven
Sampat, B., “When Do Patent Applicants Search for Prior Art?” Forthcoming, Journal of Law and Economics.
Sampat, B., “Academic Patents and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries” 2008. American Journal of Public Health.
Sampat, B., “Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis” (with Juan Alcacer and Michelle Gittleman) 2008, Research Policy.
Sampat, B., “Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp?” (with Mark Lemley), 2009, Emory Law Review.
Sampat, B., “University Software Patenting: Technology Transfer or Business as Usual?” (with Arti Rai and John Allison), 2009, University of North Carolina Law Review.
Sampat, B., “Is Bayh–Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons From the U.S. Experience” 2008. (with Anthony So, Arti Rai, Robert Cook Deegan, Jerome Reichman, Robert Weissman, and Amy Kapcynscki) PLoS Biology 6(10).
Sampat, B., “The Cost of Medical Management in Advanced Heart Failure During the Final Two Years of Life” 2008. (with M. Russo, A. Gelijns, L. Stevenson, K. Aaronson, D. Denlund, D. Ascheim, K. Hong, M. Oz, A. Moskowitz, E. Rose, and L. Miller) Journal of Cardiac Failure, 14(8): 651-8.
Sparer, Michael S.
Sparer, Michael S, Medicaid and the U.S. path to national health insurance, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 360:4, pp. 323-5, 2009 .
Sparer, Michael S, Editor's note, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law , 2008, 33(6):1027-9.
Sparer, Michael S, Editor's note, National health insurance, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2008, 33 (2), pp. 153-4.
Sparer, Michael S, Editor's note, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2008, 33 (4): 647-8.
Sparer, Michael S, Editor's note, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2008, 33 (5): 859-60.
Wang, Claire Y.
Wang YC. The Potential Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes in New York State. A Report to the New York State Health Commissioner. May 2010.
Freedman DC, Wang YC, Dietz WH, Srinivasan SR, Berenson GS. The Tracking and Variability of LDL Cholesterol Levels among Children and Adolescents: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Pediatrics. 126 (2): 266. 2010.
Gallagher D, Larson EL, Wang YC, Richards B, Weng C, Hametz P, Begg MD, Chung WK, Boden-Albala B, Akabas SR. Special Report: Identifying Interdisciplinary Research Priorities to Prevent and Treat Pediatric Obesity in New York City. Clinical and Translational Science. 2010;3(4):172-177.
Moran A, Gu D, Zhao D, Coxson P, Wang YC, Chen C-S, et al. Future Cardiovascular Disease in China: Markov Model and Risk Factor Scenario Projections From the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model-China. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2010 May 1, 2010;3(3):243-52.
Iribarne A, Easterwood R, Wang YC. Integrating Economic Evaluation Methods into Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium Comparative Effectiveness Educational Goals. Academic Medicine [In Press].
Cradock AL, McHugh A, Mont-Ferguson H, Grant L, Barrett JL, Wang YC, Gortmaker SL. Effect of School District Policy Change on Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages among High School Students. Preventing Chronic Diseases. [In Press]
Bleich SN, Wang YC. Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. [In Press]