Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Rivera-Hernandez, Kumar, A., Ferdows, N.B., Chou, L., Keeney, T., Ferdows, N.B, Karmarkar, A., Ottenbacher K. (2022) Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among High-Need and Frail Mexican American Medicare Beneficiaries, PLOS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262079.

Rivera-Hernandez, M., Matos-Moreno, A., Ferdows, N.B., Kumar, A. (2021) Posthospital Nursing Home Utilization and Quality Indicators Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico: Comparison With the United States, JAMDA, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.11.005.

Rivera-Hernandez, M., Ferdows, N.B., Kumar, A. (2020) The Impact of the Covid-19 Epidemic on Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas in Mexico, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa227.

Ferdows, N.B., Aranda, M., Baldwin, J., Baghban, S., Kumar, A. (2020) Assessment of Racial Disparities in Mortality Rates Among Older Adults Living in US Rural vs Urban Counties From 1968 to 2016, JAMA Network Open, 3(8):e2012241. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12241.

Ferdows, N. B., & Rahman, M. (2020). Evolution of the Nursing Home Industry in States With Different Certificate of Need Policies. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21(4), 559–561.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.09.014 

Kosar, C., Loomer, L., Ferdows, N.B., Panagiotou, O., Trivedi, A., Rahman, M. (2020) Rural-Urban differences in Postacute Care Utilization and Outcomes, JAMA Netw Open., 3(1), e1918738, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18738.

Ferdows, N. B., Jensen, G. A., & Tarraf, W. (2018). Healthy Aging after Age 65: A Life-Span Health Production Function Approach. Research on aging, 40(5), 480-507. doi: 10.1177/0164027517713312.

Jensen, G. A., Salloum, R. G., Hu, J., Ferdows, N. B., & Tarraf, W. (2015). A slow start: use of preventive services among seniors following the Affordable Care Act's enhancement of Medicare benefits in the US. Preventive medicine, 76, 37-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.03.023

Ferdows, N.B., Keshvari, A., & Ferdows, A.B. (2011). Productivity Analysis of Iranian Manufacturing Industries: Data Envelopment Analysis. Performance, Management and Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of DEA, P: 168-174. ISBN: 978 1 85449 481 8.

Feizpour, M.A., Ferdows, N.B., & Ghorbani, A. (2010). Industrial Structure and the Minimum Efficient Scale of Iran’s Industry: Case Study of Food Processing Industry. Knowledge & Technology, 1(1), p: 1-23. doi:10.22067/fb.v1i1.4034.

Unpublished Work

Direct and Indirect Effects of Childhood Circumstances on Healthy Aging (with Jensen & Tarraf at Wayne State University)

Gender Differences in Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Health Production Approach

Do ACO-affiliated Hospitals discharge Patients to Higher Quality Skilled Nursing Facilities (with Rahman and Mor at Brown University)

Thesis

Essays on Healthy Aging from the Perspective of a Health Production Function [Dissertation], Wayne State University; 2016.

Productivity Analysis of Iranian Manufacturing Industries: Data Envelopment Analysis [Dissertation], Yazd University; 2009.