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Description:: Pharmaceutical companies pay more than $2 billion to physicians every year. Most of these payments are for food and beverage, speaking, honoraria, consulting, and travel and lodging, which are termed “general payments.” These payments have come under increased scrutiny as critics of pharmaceutical promotion argue that they influence prescribing in...
Keyword:: Prescriptions, Pharmaceutical company payments, Pharmaceuticals, and Advertising
Subject:: Marketing, Economics, and Health care management
Creator:: Cakkalkurt, Hasat
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15216 and etdadmin_upload_760464

Description:: Social factors are a major contributor to deaths in the US. The literature suggests that socioeconomic status and other social and environmental factors influence an individual’s mortality. These factors encompass six domains that comprise factors such as poverty, unemployment, poor access to healthy food, limited access to health care, limited...
Keyword:: Social Determinants of Health, Hospitalization, Mortality, Health Insurance, and Emergency Department
Subject:: Health sciences, Health care management, and Public health
Creator:: Wang, Andrew C
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15384 and etdadmin_upload_780174

Description:: The application of formal multilayer networks (MLNs)—networks which contain multiple types of relationships, data types, or other additional features of complexity and connectivity—has recently become popular in many fields. Areas of study ranging from social science to biology have utilized MLNs to explore, describe, and analyze interconnected complex systems. MLNs...
Keyword:: Hospital Operations, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Patient Outcomes, Teamwork, Electronic Health Record Data, and Networks
Subject:: Information science, Health sciences, and Health care management
Creator:: Chandler, Ariel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_713264 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14964

Description:: This dissertation studies topics in health care operations management related to value-based care, where {\em value} can be thought of as the ratio of quality to cost. The objective in value-based care is to increase, or maximize, value by reducing costs and improving quality health outcomes. In Chapter 1 we...
Subject:: Health care management and Operations research
Creator:: Grant, Benjamin Noah
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14606 and etdadmin_upload_661472

Description:: Reducing the high incidence of metabolic syndrome especially among older people living in low income communities is a goal of the health system. Residents of the Austin community of Chicago suffer from a heavy burden of health issues related to metabolic syndrome leading to disproportionally higher morbidity and mortality rates...
Keyword:: Hypertension, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Reducing Health Disparities, Asset-Based Community Development, Metabolic Syndrom, and Applied Medical Anthropology
Subject:: Health sciences, Health care management, and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Diamond, Michael W.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_613946 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14387

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