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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Provision on Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The United States has been in the midst of an opioid epidemic for over two decades. With nearly 50,000 Americans dying each year as a result of opioid overdoses and an estimated annual economic toll of over $500 billion, ...
The Impeding Effects of United States Sanctions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran
(Georgetown University, 2021)
I set out to examine the relationship between United States sanctions on Iran and humanitarian trade in the form of pharmaceutical imports. To measure this relationship, I used the gravity model of international trade. In ...
The Impact of Health on Political Attitudes: Does Suffering from a Hampering Health Condition Make Individuals More Egalitarian?
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The study of the impact of hampering health conditions on political behavior is particularly relevant in light of current debates about the government’s role in ensuring access to healthcare, and the extent to which it ...
Relationships Between Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Although adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) have been amply studied, most research on the topic focuses on examining contraceptive use and the risk of unintended ...
House Bill 2: The Effect of Reducing Access to Abortion Providers on Educational Attainment in Texas
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In 2013, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), which required all physicians providing abortions to maintain admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles as well as mandating that facilities providing ...
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Eviction Rates
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Studies have shown that the expansion of Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income Americans, is associated with improvements in financial wellbeing among new recipients. Building on this literature, I ...
Health Insurance To Die For: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion on Criminal Homicide Rates
(Georgetown University, 2019)
While a significant body of research details the effects of Medicaid Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (ACA) on patient outcomes and economic impacts, few studies investigate the fringe ...
Death by Partisanship: Is Political Ideology a Social Determinant of Health?
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Political ideology affects individual decision making outside of the ballot box. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights the impact of political ideology on individual risk perception, belief in misinformation, and health ...
Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Adolescent Marijuana Use
(Georgetown University, 2022)
About 37% of high school students reported ever having used marijuana and about 22% reported use in the past 30 days in 2019. With a significant percentage of teenagers using marijuana, surveys show that it is not difficult ...
Exploring Factors that Influence Testing Positive for COVID-19
(Georgetown University, 2023)
The world witnessed the birth of a new pandemic in March 2020 – the coronavirus. COVID-19 has had a drastic impact on public health and everyday life as the United States has more coronavirus cases and deaths than any other ...