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The Evolving Private Psychiatric Inpatient MarketThe private psychiatric hospital market has exhibited great volatility over time. From 1976 to 1992, the number of hospitals more than doubled, while in the decade following, the number of facilities dropped by half. Recently, however, the industry has …
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Aligning Ideologies and Institutions: Reorganization in the HIV/AIDS Services Administration of New York CityHow effective was organizational reform implemented inside one critical New York City health agency? Specifically, we examine the extent to which the reorganization of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) into the Medical Insurance Services …
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Using Electronically Available Inpatient Hospital Data for ResearchDespite a push to create electronic health records and a plethora of healthcare data from disparate sources, there are no data from a single electronic source that provide a full picture of a patient’s hospital course. This paper describes a process to …
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Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for Physician Services Compared to Other CountriesHigher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation’s health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians’ fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip …
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From Research to Health Policy ImpactThe opportunities for researchers to improve health and health care by contributing to the formulation and implementation of policy are almost unlimited. Indeed, the availability of these opportunities is a tribute to a generation of health services …
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Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform FailsChronic Condition provides a compelling analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals. It also offers an ingenious new framework for reform that, while minimizing government interference, would …
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Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability …
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The Oxford Handbook of Health EconomicsThe Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The …
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The Disruptive Power of RCTsTwo very different kinds of RCTs are used by economists, although they often get lumped together. The first kind is evaluative, used to assess whether a policy or intervention worked or not. Critics worry that privileging these RCTs over other evaluation …
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Mobility, Economic Opportunity and New York City NeighborhoodsAlthough public transit provides access to jobs throughout the New York City region, there are actually substantial inequalities in mobility. By focusing on the neighborhood level, the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation has identified communities that …
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Transportation During Coronavirus in NYCThe COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdown of non-essential business transformed mobility in, through and around New York City. This report provides a detailed analysis of the way in which the transportation systems in New York City and the surrounding region …
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Forgoing health care under universal health insurance: the case of FranceObjectives: We investigate the reliability of a survey question on forgone healthcare services for financial reasons, based on analysis of actual healthcare use over the 3-year period preceding response to the question. We compare the actual use of …
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Balance Sheet Insolvency and Contribution Revenue in Public CharitiesUsing Form 990 data reported by public charities, we document signifi cant bunching of nonprofits at near-zero net assets, the threshold for insolvency. Bunching occurs despite the fact that creditors cannot force insolvent nonprofits into involuntary …
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A network framework for dynamic models of urban food, energy and water systems (FEWS)Rae Zimmerman, Quanyan Zhu, Carolyn Dimitri …
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Financing sustainable infrastructure: Reconciling disaster and traditional financial resourcesRae Zimmerman …
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Conceptual modeling framework to integrate resilient and interdependent infrastructure in extreme weatherRae Zimmerman, Quanyan Zhu, Francisco De Leon, Zhan Guo …
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Benefits and Needs for an Integrated Approach to Cyber-Physical Security for TransportationRae Zimmerman, M. Dinning …
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Engaging Ethnic Restaurants to Improve Community Nutrition Environments: A Qualitative Study with Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York CityMelissa Fuster, Kevin Guerrero, Brian D. Elbel, Krishnendu Ray, Terry T.K. Huang …
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Fast food, beverage, and snack brands on social media in the United States: An examination of marketing techniques utilized in 2000 brand postsMarie Bragg, Yrvane K. Pageot, Angela Amico, Alysa N. Miller, Angela Gasbarre, Pasquale Rummo, Brian D. Elbel …
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Impact of Changes in the Food, Built, and Socioeconomic Environment on BMI in US Counties, BRFSS 2003-2012Pasquale Rummo, Justin M. Feldman, Priscilla M. Lopez, David C. Lee, Lorna Thorpe, Brian D. Elbel …
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Secondhand smoke exposure in public and private high-rise multiunit housing serving low-income residents in New York City prior to federal smoking ban in public housing, 2018Elle Anastasiou, Alexis Feinberg, Albert Tovar, Emily Gill, M. J. Ruzmyn Vilcassim, Katarzyna E. Wyka, Terry Gordon, Ana Rule, Sue Kaplan, Brian D. Elbel, Donna Shelley, Lorna …