Dissertation
Topics in health economics: Prevention, addiction and fraud
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
08/2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006145
Abstract
These three articles use empirical data to examine important questions regarding public health policy. The first article, Detecting Selection Effects in Community Implementations of Family-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Programs discusses the implications of self-selection in to universal prevention programs and implements an innovative statistical procedure to identify such selection in Washington State for the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth. The second article, Unintended Consequences: Medicare s Impact on the Diagnosis of Non-Enrollees models the incentive for fraudulent diagnosis when provider reimbursement is based on diagnosis for a portion of the population. Importantly, I find evidence that providers which treat a large portion of Medicare patients are more likely to over diagnose (upcode) both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The third article examines the role of peer perceptions in young people s desire to smoke. Using data from the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey, I show that the youth s expectation of social rewards is a significant predictor of smoking behavior, and interacts with tobacco control policies.
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Details
- Title
- Topics in health economics
- Creators
- Scott Anthony Goates
- Contributors
- Robert E. Rosenman (Chair)R C Mittelhammer (Committee Member) - Washington State University, School of Economic SciencesLaura Griner Hill (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- School of Economic Sciences
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 101
- Identifiers
- 99901055128301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation