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Vivian Valdmanis, PhD
Dr. Valdmanis is a health economist who concentrates on modeling hospital performance along with a policy focus oncare for the uninsured, contingency planning as well as public and community health.
In addition to health/medical care, evaluations in several low and middle income countries, she holds a reserach fellowship at the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands) and researches regularly on advanced modeling techniques with colleagues from the U.S. and France.
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- Modeling hospital performance
- Contingency Planning and Emergency
- Preparedness (in association with the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality
- Economic evaluation of conmunity health services, social welfare costs of disparities
- Author of over 50 referenced jounnals in Economics, Operations Research, Health Care Services Research
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- Hospital Productivity
- Uncompensated Care
- Welfare/Hospital Economics
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Publications
Valdmanis, V., M. Rosko, and R. Mutter (2008) “Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials” Health Services Research vol 43, no. 5 pp. 1830-1848
Bernet, P., M. Rosko, V.Valdmanis, A. Pilyavsky and
W. Aaronson (2008) “Productivity Efficiencies in Ukrainian Polyclinics”
Journal of Productivity Analysis vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 103-111
Robbins J., G. Thatcher, D. Webb and V. Valdmanis (2008) “Nutritionist Visits, Diabetes Classes, and Hospitalization Rates and Charges: the Urban Diabetes Study” Diabetes Care vol. 31, no. 4 pp. 655-660
*Ferrier, G., H. Leleu, and V. Valdmanis (2008) “Hospital Capacity in Large Urban Areas: Is There Enough in Times of Need”
Journal of Productivity Analysis Online Version 25, March 2008
Clement, J. V. Valdmanis, G. Bazzoli, M. Zhao, and A. Chukmaitov (2008) “Is More Better? An Analysis of Hospital Outcomes and Efficiency with a DEA Model of Output Congestion”
Health Care Management Science , 11:67-77.
Bernet, P., M. Rosko, and V. Valdmanis (2007) “Hospital Efficiency and Debt”
Journal of Health Care Finance (Forthcoming)
Robbins, J., V. Valdmanis, D. Webb (2008) “Do Public Health Clinics Reduce Rehospitalizations? The Urban Diabetes Study Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved vol. 19, no. 2 pp. 562-573
Toriello, H., M. Mathew, and V. Valdmanis (2007)“Evidence that Macrocephaly and Obesity are Dependent Traits” American Journal of Medical Genetics” vol. 143A, no. 24, pp.3035-3037
Pilyavsky, A., W. Aaronson, P. Bernet, M. Rosko, V. Valdmanis, and M. Golubchikov (2006) “East-West: Does it make a Difference to Hospital Efficiencies in
? Health Economics 15 (11) 1173-1186
*Ferrier, G., M. Rosko, and V. Valdmanis (2006) “Analysis of Uncompensated Hospital Care Using a DEA Model of Output Congestion”
Health Care Management Science s, 9(2) 181-188
Polack,S., H.Kuper, A.W.Solomon, P.A.Massae, C.Abuelo, E.Cameron, V.Valdmanis, M.Mahande, A.Foster, D.Mabey (2006) “The relationship between prevalence of active trachoma, water availability and its use in a Tanzanian village” Transactions of the Royal Society and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 100(11) 1075-1083
*Dervaux, B., H.Leleu, H. Nantes, and V. Valdmanis (2006) “Assessing French Nursing Home Efficiency: An Indirect Output Distance Approach” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 40 70-91
Cairncross, S. and V. Valdmanis (2006) “Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion” in The Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition) ed., New York:
Oxford
University Press Chapter 41
*Berta, W., A. Laporte, and V. Valdmanis (2005) “Observations on Institutional Long-Term Care in
Ontario : 1996-2001”. Canadian Journal on Aging 24(1) 71-84
*Dervaux, B., H.Leleu, and V. Valdmanis (2005) “Estimating Tradeoffs among Health Care System’s Objectives Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 5(1) 39-58
*Blank, J. and V. Valdmanis (2005) “A Modified three-Stage DEA: Application to Homes for the Mentally Disabled in The Netherlands” European Journal of Health Economics 6(1) 65-72
Valdmanis, V., L. Kumanarayake, and J. Lertiendumrung (2004) “Capacity in
Thai
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Hospitals and the Production of Care for Poor and Non-Poor Patients” Health Services Research, 39 (6) Part II, 2117-2134
*Dervaux, B., G. Ferrier, H. Leleu, and V. Valdmanis (2004). Comparing French and US Hospital Technologies: A Directional Input Distance Function Approach, Applied Economics, 36 (10), 1065-1081
*Ferrier, G. and V. Valdmanis “Hospital Mergers and Efficiency over Time: A Malmquist
Approach” (2004) Journal of Operations Research Society 55 (10), 1071-1080
Book: Blank, JLT and V. Valdmanis (2008) Editors Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol 18
Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd.
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