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Professor, Department of Medicine and Health Services
911 Broxton Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736
(310) 794-2289
Fax: (310) 794-0732
E-mail: SEttner@mednet.ucla.edu
Susan L. Ettner is Professor
in the Department of Health Services and the Division of General
Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in the Department
of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D.
in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr.
Ettner’s research interests include reciprocity in the relationship
between health and labor market outcomes, mental health and
substance abuse services, insurance markets and managed care,
and chronic disability, post-acute and long-term care. Dr. Ettner
has received research funding from NIMH to analyze administrative
and survey data to examine the role of patient, provider and
market characteristics in determining the psychiatric treatment
patterns and outcomes of elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries.
A few of her other current projects are studies of risk adjustment
of behavioral health care costs and outcomes; the impact of
mental and physical health on labor market outcomes; mediating
factors in the SES and health relationship; the cost-effectiveness
of integrated primary care interventions on the cost and outcomes
of triply diagnosed HIV+ patients; the impact of managed care
on the substance abuse treatment patterns and outcomes of Medicaid
beneficiaries; and the relationship between somatization and
inappropriate utilization in primary care settings.
Selected Publications
Ettner
SL. Do Elderly Medicaid Patients Experience Reduced Access to
Nursing Home Care? Journal of Health Economics 1993;
12(3):259-280.
Ettner
SL. The Opportunity Costs of Elder Care. Journal of Human
Resources 1996; 31(1): 189-205.
Ettner SL.
New Evidence on the Relationship Between Income and Health.
Journal of Health Economics 1996; 15(1): 67-86.
Ettner
SL. Medicaid Participation Among the Eligible Elderly. Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management 1997; 16(3):237-255.
Ettner
SL. Adverse Selection and the Purchase of MediGap Insurance
by the Elderly. Journal
of Health Economics 1997; 16(5):543-562.
Ettner
SL, Frank R, Kessler R. The Impact of Psychiatric Disorder on
Labor Market Outcomes. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 1997; 51(1):64-81.
Ettner
SL. The Relationship Between the Continuity of Care and the
Health Behaviors of Patients: Does Having a Usual Physician
Make a Difference?
Medical Care 1999; 37(6): 547-55.
Ettner
SL. “The Relationship between Labor Market Outcomes and Mental
and Physical Health: Exogenous Human Capital or Endogenous Health
Production?”
In
Salkever and Sorkin (eds.), The Economics of Disability, Series on Research in Human Capital and
Development, JAI Press, 2000.
Ettner
SL, Hermann RC. The Role of Profit Status under Imperfect Information:
Evidence from the Treatment Patterns of Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries
Hospitalized for Psychiatric Diagnoses.
Journal of Health
Economics 2001;20:23-49.
Ettner
SL, Frank RG, McGuire T, Hermann RC.
Risk Adjustment of Medicaid
Capitation Payments: How Well Does It Work in Behavioral
Health Applications? Health
Services Research (forthcoming).
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