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- This dissertation contains three essays that study the operational challenges in healthcare-related fields. We strive to integrate analytical modeling and empirical methods to study decision-making under uncertainty for practice- and data-driven problems. We use large-scale datasets (millions) gathered from years of data collection. To gain access to these proprietary data,...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Resource Sharing, and Data-Driven
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Jiang, Yangzi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903140 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16089
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- This dissertation studies three aspects of health insurance market regulation and design. Chapter 1 (which is joint work with Steve Cicala and Ethan Leiber) studies a regulatory mechanism used to constrain insurer market power. The mechanism targets health insurers' Medical Loss Ratio, which is the share of premiums spent on...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Industrial organization, Health insurance, Market design, and Moral hazard
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marone, Victoria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15242
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- Description:
- This study is in consideration of the spread of COVID-19, the related various government responses, and how these responses and other demographic variables affected the spread and severity of the virus on a domestic (United States) and international level. During the last few months, the virus has spread from its...
- Keyword:
- Novel Coronavirus, Healthcare, COVID-19, Demographics, Government Response, Virus, Heatmaps, Coronavirus, Stringency Index, Data Visualization, and Time Series
- Subject:
- Spread of COVID-19, the related various government responses, and how these responses and other demographic variables affected the spread and severity of the virus on a domestic (United States) and international level
- Creator:
- Alex Atallah, Jack Williams, Gerry Young, and Kevin Scott
- Owner:
- Kevin Wayne Scott
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Language:
- English (US)
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/11/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-06-07
- Resource Type:
- Report
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- Description:
- Social media such as Twitter has risen as a powerful new communication medium for disseminating information on news, personal interests, experiences, and opinions. On social media, people talk about their lifestyle, health conditions and symptoms, search information on treatment options, and connect with people who have been through similar medical...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Data Mining, Twitter, Social Media, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Kathy Lee
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation