HPA MHA Faculty Research
Recent HPA MHA Faculty Research Heading link
A Qualitative Exploratory Study
Marcus Dillender, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health, and Melissa McInerney, PhD, associate professor of economics at Tufts University, investigated the connection between workplace safety and Mexican immigration in a new article in the Journal of Health Economics.
Their findings offer an explanation for immigration effects on the decline in workers’ compensation payouts but also illustrate the unanswered questions about factors powering the decline at a time when claims may be on the rise due to workplace infections.
“The number of reported injuries has fallen dramatically over the past two decades, but it’s not clear why,” Dillender said. “It could be that things have gotten safer, but this can’t be explained by industry composition shift.”
Variations in Medical Care Spending
Pierre Thomas Léger, PhD, associate professor of health policy and administration, has earned a new grant from National Institute for Health Care Management to study geographic variation in Medicare and commercial spending. These variations have been a central piece of evidence of the inefficiency of the US healthcare system. However, policies have been proposed without much rigorous, theoretical guidance as to the underlying causes and implications of this variation. In a new project with Robert Town of the University Texas at Austin, he is building a testable theory of geographic variations in healthcare expenditures and utilization that reconciles a series of established facts of both the Medicare and commercial insurance markets as well as their independencies.
Specifically, the work will investigate whether geographic variations in physician practice style are driving variations in spending and utilization or whether these variations are due to different financial incentives inherent in the reimbursement schedules of different payers.
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Research centers our faculty collaborate with: Heading link
P3RC
At the Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center (P3RC), we are building and translating evidence and strengthening leadership capacity to advance policies and practices that improve population health and equity. https://p3rc.uic.edu/
IHRP
Institute for Health Research and Policy (IHRP) catalyzes innovative research by providing the services and infrastructure needed to develop research ideas, form collaborations and successful teams, and manage grants from proposal to closeout.
PHAME
The Population Health Analytics, Metric and Evaluation (PHAME) center integrates novel technology with academic expertise to provide community-level data analysis, evaluation and visualization for community members, policy makers, researchers and students in the city of Chicago and beyond. We aim to support and advance data-driven public health decisions, meaningful population health initiatives and the reduction of health disparities, all centered around social determinants of health.