HEALTH STATUS

Background: The ability to measure health and the value of improving or declining health is crucial to the evaluation of health care interventions. Many generic and disease specific health status measures exist for use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The Overall Stat…

Investment in human capital is associated with higher economic and non-economic gains in the future for the individual, the household, and at the aggregate level for the economy. In my dissertation, I examine three different policy oriented questions that are relevant for improv…

Health status and healthcare utilization vary depending upon the cultural, social, economic and geographic situation of the person seeking care. This dissertation addresses two questions: (1) Which models of health status and healthcare utilization designed for use in the develo…

Both highly developed and developing countries share the common problem of how to maximize the health and welfare of their populations within a context of ever-tighter budgets for public health expenditures. In such situations, it becomes crucial for governments to identify effe…

This paper empirically examines the role of socioeconomic and environmental factors in explaining longevity with diarrhea for adults by using detailed health data for the Union Army veterans of the United States Civil War. Prevalence rates calculated from current data show that,…

This dissertation examines the largest human skeletal sample recovered from the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent, the central Zagros Mountains, that dates to early in the subsistence transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. This monumental change in modern human …