Arrieta, Alejandro
- Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management , Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work

Overview
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Dr. Alejandro Arrieta is a health economist and faculty member in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Florida International University (FIU). Before he joined FIU, he held a faculty appointment at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis. Dr. Arrieta has been consultant to the Pan American Health Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank on several projects on quality of care, primary care and disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr. Arrieta has an active research portfolio in health policy and global health, exploring the effect of health care financing and organization on utilization and quality of care. For example, how physician incentives affect the utilization and quality of care, how the organization of hospitals and payers affect the provision of preventable care, or how health reforms have changed the role of the private sector in health systems in Latin America. Dr. Arrieta has a special interest on maternal care quality, its assessment, and how financial and non-financial incentives affect maternal care outcomes.
Dr. Arrieta has also served as principal investigator, co-investigator and consultant in several studies assessing the economic evaluation of healthcare programs. Those studies include financial incentives to change smoking behavior, technological devices to improve self-control of hypertension, care management programs to improve diabetes control, retrofitting projects to improve hospital safety, etc.
He also leads Healthcare Management Americas, an FIU initiative to build capacity and research on quality, risk management and patient safety in Latin America.
research interests
- Value of Healthcare and Utilization and Quality of Care
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2020Valuing disaster risk reduction neighborhood interventions in informal settlements of Latin American and the CaribbeanFull Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242409 Web of Science: 000608488200041
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2020Moderating effect of partner smoking on pregnant women's intention to stop smoking: applying the reasoned action approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2019.1708904 Web of Science: 000506119500001
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2019Health System Approaches Are Needed To Expand Telemedicine Use Across Nine Latin American NationsFull Text via DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05274 Web of Science: 000464094500008
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2018Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Asthma in Miami, Florida: 2005-2013Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10903-017-0686-1 Web of Science: 000451159200016
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2018The birthweight toll of mining pollution: evidence from the most contaminated mine site in the Andean regionFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.15257 Web of Science: 000440985300015
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2018Assessment of patient safety culture in private and public hospitals in PeruFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx165
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2017Risk attitudes in medical decisions for others: An experimental approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/hec.3628 Web of Science: 000423294300008
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2017Output congestion leads to compromised care in Peruvian public hospital neonatal unitsFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10729-015-9346-y Web of Science: 000400567400001
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2017Economic Evaluation of PCSK9 Inhibitors in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk from Health System and Private Payer PerspectivesFull Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169761 Web of Science: 000391949500072
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2016Financial Dependence of Young Adults with Childhood ADHDFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10802-015-0093-9 Web of Science: 000379221500016
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2016HEALTH CARE AND THE CONTRIBUTION PRINCIPLE OF US HEALTH CAREFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.rlds.2016.08.001 Web of Science: 000383850500001
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2016Asthma in schoolchildren in Monroe county, Florida: school-based needs assessmentFull Text via DOI: 10.3109/02770903.2015.1081939 Web of Science: 000373515900014
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2016Non-elective C-sections in public hospitals: capacity constraints and doctor incentivesFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1164820 Web of Science: 000382967100003
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2015Over-utilization of cesarean sections and misclassification errorFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10742-014-0132-y Web of Science: 000213587700004
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2015Cost sharing and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.026 Web of Science: 000348255800015
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2014Cost-Benefit Analysis of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment An Insurer PerspectiveFull Text via DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03780 Web of Science: 000341988000031
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2013The Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Unpaid Medical BillsFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/0046958013516580 Web of Science: 000333399600001
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Conference
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Letter
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2018Burden of Catastrophic Health Expenditures for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Among Uninsured in the United States. 408-410.Full Text via DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030128 Web of Science: 000422926300016
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Other Scholarly Work
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Review
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2021Obesity in Latin America, a scoping review of public health prevention strategies and an overview of their impact on obesity prevention. 5142-5155.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S1368980021001403 Web of Science: 000698249400039
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2021Review: Type 2 diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional and country comparison on prevalence, trends, costs and expanded prevention. 352-359.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.10.001 Web of Science: 000631703500023
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Research
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- FIU Updated REST Application in Excel and KAP Assessment awarded by Pan American Health Organization 2020 - 2022
- Intergovernmental Agreement for Ryan White Part A HIV Health Support Services awarded by Palm Beach County Community Services Dep 2018 - 2022
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of SMART Hospitals in Four Caribbean Countries awarded by Pan American Health Organization 2015 - 2019
- ROI Calculator for Reimbursement of Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring awarded by American Medical Association 2016 - 2017
- Evaluating the Cost-Benefit of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Smoking among Pregnant Women in Indiana awarded by U.S. Department of Health & Human Servic 2014 - 2017
- Evaluating the Cost-Benefit of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Smoking among Pregnant Women in Indiana awarded by Indiana State Department of Health 2013 - 2014
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Videos
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Contact
full name
- Alejandro Arrieta Herrera
- Alejandro Arrieta
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7628-8894 (confirmed)
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