Clinical Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Sloan Graduate Program in Health
Services Administration B.A. 1971, Drake University; M.A. 1972, University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Ph.D. 1982, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Health Policy, Economics and Health Services Research
John Kuder, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Health Economics
and Finance. He is also the Director of the Sloan Program in Health
Services Administration at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and
was the Director of the Center for Applied Research at Henry Ford Health
Care System in Detroit. Dr. Kuder's research background focuses primarily
on the financing of health care, decision making regarding the use of services,
and more recently on the impact of managed care systems on Medicaid populations.
Dr. Kuder's teaching and studies are on the organization, financing and
economics of health services and health insurance from a systems perspective.
His work focuses primarily on how public policy shapes the organization
and financing of services and how decisions, by consumers and health service
providers, are then influenced by these changes. In addition to the
use of services, his work concerns issues regarding consumer and physician
satisfaction, efficiency, cost, and equity. His is primarily interested
in the influence that policy has on vulnerable populations including rural
populations, children, the elderly, the poor and the chronically ill.
Currently, the majority of his research work in on Managed Care and specifically
public managed care programs (Medicaid and Medicare).
Recent Publications
Kuder, J.M. An Analysis of
the Current Health Care Environment for Medical Decision Making:
Alternative Concepts and Decision Motivation. Motivation and Emotion.
19: 221-226, 1995.
