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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate ...
Optimal Decentralization of Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV in Resource-Limited Settings

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M&SOM

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    Early infant diagnosis (EID) programs in many resource-limited settings are aimed at diagnosing infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Because of the complexity of the diagnostic technology, EID programs are often highly centralized with few laboratories ...
Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    Many end-stage renal disease sufferers who require a kidney transplant to prolong their lives have a relative or friend who has volunteered to donate a kidney to them, but whose kidney is incompatible with the intended recipient. This incompatibility can ...
The Post-Disaster Debris Clearance Problem Under Incomplete Information

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Operations Research

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    Debris management is one of the most time consuming and complicated activities among post-disaster operations. Debris clearance is aimed at pushing the debris to the sides of the roads so that relief distribution and search-and-rescue operations can be ...
Improving Community Cohesion in School Choice via Correlated-Lottery Implementation

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Operations Research

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    In school choice, children submit a preference ranking over schools to a centralized assignment algorithm, which takes into account schools’ priorities over children and uses randomization to break ties. One criticism of existing school choice mechanisms ...
Analyzing Screening Policies for Childhood Obesity

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Because of the health and economic costs of childhood obesity, coupled with studies suggesting the benefits of comprehensive (dietary, physical activity, and behavioral counseling) intervention, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended ...
Advancing Public Health and Medical Preparedness with Operations Research

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Interfaces

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    Planning for a catastrophe involving a disease outbreak with the potential for mass casualties is a significant challenge for emergency managers. Public health experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) teamed with operations ...
Combinatorial Auctions for Procurement: An Empirical Study of the Chilean School Meals Auction

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Management Science

    Abstract
    In this paper we conduct an empirical investigation of a large-scale combinatorial auction (CA)—the Chilean auction for school meals in which the government procures half a billion dollars worth of meal services every year. Our empirical study is ...
The National Audit Office Uses OR to Assess the Value for Money of Public Services

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) have an important role in assessing value for money in the delivery of public services. Assessing value for money necessarily involves assessing counterfactuals: good value for money has been achieved if a policy could ...
Risk-Based Policies for Airport Security Checkpoint Screening

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Transportation Science

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    Passenger screening is an important component of aviation security that incorporates real-time passenger screening strategies designed to maximize effectiveness in identifying potential terrorist attacks. This paper identifies a methodology that can be ...
Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death

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Operations Research

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    This paper analyzes the relationships between personal decisions and premature deaths in the United States. The analysis indicates that over one million of the 2.4 million deaths in 2000 can be attributed to personal decisions and could have been avoided ...
Public Evacuation Decisions and Hurricane Track Uncertainty

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Management Science

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    Public officials with the authority to order hurricane evacuations face a difficult trade-off between risks to life and costly false alarms. Evacuation decisions must be made on the basis of imperfect information, in the form of forecasts. The quality of ...
Controlling Co-Epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics

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Operations Research

    Abstract
    A co-epidemic arises when the spread of one infectious disease stimulates the spread of another infectious disease. Recently, this has happened with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB). We develop two variants of a co-epidemic model ...
An Analysis of Short-Term Responses to Threats of Terrorism

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Two important defensive mechanisms available to governments combating terrorism are warnings and the deployment of physical resources. Warnings are relatively inexpensive to issue but their effectiveness suffers from false alarms. Physical deployments of ...
Defending Critical Infrastructure

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    We apply new bilevel and trilevel optimization models to make critical infrastructure more resilient against terrorist attacks. Each model features an intelligent attacker (terrorists) and a defender (us), information transparency, and sequential actions ...
Safe At Home? An Experiment in Domestic Airline Security

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Operations Research

    Abstract
    The paper describes a scientific experiment about a contentious policy issue: What costs and disruptions might arise if U.S. domestic airlines adopted positive passenger bag-match (PPBM), an antiterrorist measure aimed at preventing baggage unaccompanied ...
Garbage Collection in Chicago: A Dynamic Scheduling Model

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Management Science

    Abstract
    We investigate the scheduling of garbage trucks in the city of Chicago. Analysis of data collected from the system shows that city blocks differ in the rate at which garbage is collected. However, in the current system, each truck visits the dumpsite two ...
Enforcement or Treatment? Modeling the Relative Efficacy of Alternatives for Controlling Cocaine

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Operations Research

    Abstract
    This paper presents a model that estimates the relative cost-effectiveness of four cocaine-control programs: three “supply control” programs (source-country control, interdiction, and domestic enforcement) and a “demand control” program (treating heavy ...
Probability Models of Needle Exchange

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Operations Research

    Abstract
    Needle exchange is an intervention for slowing HIV transmission among drug injectors. Most studies of needle exchange rely on changes in self-reported risky behaviors among program participants. This paper reports two models based on objectively observed ...
Artificial Inflation of a Delinquency Rate by a Selection Artifact

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Operations Research

    Abstract
    Cohorts of youths sentenced to a variety of correctional programs show substantial reductions in delinquent activity after leaving the programs compared to before sentencing. This paper develops models of delinquent activity and subsequent sentencing to a ...

Other Journal Articles

Ready-to-Use Food-Allocation Policy to Reduce the Effects of Childhood Undernutrition in Developing Countries
Yan Yang, Jan Van den Broeck, Lawrence M. Wein
PNAS
Published Online: March 2013
Operational Effectiveness of Suicide-Bomber-Detector Schemes: A Best-Case Analysis
Edward H. Kaplan, Moshe Kress
PNAS
Published Online: July 2005
Modelling Drug Market Supply Disruptions: Where Do All the Drugs Not Go?
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Haijing Hao
Journal of Policy Modeling
Published Online: May 2007
Past Intensity of a Terminated Poisson Process
S.M. Pollock, R.L. Farrell
Operations Research Letters
Published: March 1984
Note. This article corrects a mathematical error in Maltz MD, Pollock SM (1980) Artificial inflation of a delinquency rate by a selection artifact. Oper. Res. 28(3i):547-559.

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