June 1, 2008
Location: Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Dates: 7-8 November 2008
Submissions deadline: June 1, 2008
Venue: China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Please email papers or extended abstracts (about 500 words) to karene@stanford.edu. The selection committee will notify authors by July 1, 2008.
Organizers of the conference include health economists at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University; the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University; Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Department of Economics; and Seoul National University School of Public Health.
We welcome empirical and theoretical research analyzing how reimbursement incentives shape health and healthcare behavior in the economies of the Asia-Pacific. We especially welcome evaluations of policy reforms and natural experiments impacting health service provider incentives. The papers can examine payment incentives in one country, region, or healthcare setting, or include comparative analysis of two or more regions in the Asia-Pacific.
We also encourage inquiries from researchers that may have access to relevant payment reform data but are interested in support regarding their research design or analytic methods. We will work with you to identify appropriate collaborators and possible financial support for completing the research.
Authors of papers selected for presentation will receive partial subsidy for their participation in the conference as well as opportunity to publish their research in a special volume through the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University or in a special issue of an English-language health policy journal.
June 1, 2008: Health Economics
June 3, 2008
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Dates: 27 - 29 August 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: 3 June 2008
Hosted by the Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen. Full details available at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/hesg
Call for Abstracts: This is a joint meeting of the UK and Nordic HESGs with papers on any relevant topic. Preference will be given to work-in-progress, first time presenters and PhD students. The HESG meeting will have the standard format with papers submitted in advance and introduced and reviewed by a discussant other than the author.
Please send a title and an abstract of up to 500 words of the proposed content by Tuesday, 3 June if you wish to have a paper considered. The following structure is preferred although a different structure would be acceptable if justified.
- Title, authors and contact details
- Aims
- Methods
- Data (if any)
- Results
- Conclusions
Please submit abstracts by e-mail, using the subject header “HESG abstract” and including the abstract in the BODY of the message to: heru-hesg@abdn.ac.uk
Selection criteria: Papers on any health economics topic will be considered. Please note that there is a restriction on the number of slots available for papers, and there is no guarantee that your abstract will be accepted. In the case of over-subscription, the scientific committee will select papers on the following basis:
- Only abstracts submitted before the deadline will be considered
- Papers with little or no economics content will be rejected
- Work-in-progress papers and those at an early stage of development are encouraged. Reproduced reports and papers (especially those written for other audiences) and reproduced book chapters will be rejected.
- Papers by PhD students are encouraged.
- Authors, or sets of authors (but not institutions or units), may be restricted to one paper.
- A balanced distribution of papers by UK and Nordic countries will be aimed for.
If all the above criteria are satisfied and the number of papers submitted still exceeds the number of slots available, papers will be selected on the basis of quality.
Authors will be notified and the programme will be announced with an invitation for chairs & discussants on 24 June 2008.
Papers: If your abstract is accepted, we will be asking you to submit your paper in Word or PDF format as an e-mail attachment by Tuesday 29 July 2008.
Scientific committee
- Tor Iversen (University of Oslo)
- Oddvar Kaarbøe (University of Bergen)
- Marjon van der Pol (University of Aberdeen)
- Barbara Eberth (University of Aberdeen)
- Verity Watson (University of Aberdeen)
Academic enquiries
Marjon van der Pol (HERU)
m.vanderpol@abdn.ac.uk
phone +44 1224 553269
Administrative Enquiries
Shona Christie
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland
Email: heru-hesg@abdn.ac.uk
Phone: 01224 553733
All further information about this meeting will be posted at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/hesg
June 3, 2008: Health Economics
June 16, 2008
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Dates: 17-18 October 2008
Abstract submission deadline: 16 June 2008
Sponsored by the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The purpose of this invitational conference is to present and promote active exchange and discussion of the latest health economics research among senior and junior economists. Meals and lodging will be provided. Transportation to Birmingham is the participants’ responsibility.
Ten papers will be accepted for presentation. The conference will consist of a full day of presentations on Friday, October 17 and a half-day of presentations on Saturday, October 18. Each paper will be allotted 60 minutes, including 40 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussant comments and discussion from the floor. The number of participants in the conference will be limited. While submissions are invited from any geographical location, preference will be given to presenters from the Southeastern region of the United States.
If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract (maximum of two pages) in electronic format (pdf preferred) to Lee Howard, leeh@uab.edu, by June 16. Submissions should be unpublished.
Decisions will be made by July 14; completed papers must be received by the conference organizers by September 15. For further information, please contact Michael Morrisey, (205) 975 -8966, or morrisey@uab.edu.
Steering Committee:
- W. David Bradford (Medical University of SC)
- Marisa Domino (University of North Carolina)
- Alvin Headen (North Carolina State University)
- Richard Lindrooth (Medical University of SC)
- Michael Morrisey (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- Christopher Ruhm (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Frank Sloan (Duke University)
June 16, 2008: Health Economics
June 30, 2008
Closing date: 30 June 2008
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Care Management Science (HCMS) and the Guest Editor are pleased to invite authors to submit suitable papers for possible publication. The special issue devoted to “Management Science and Economics of Medical Devices for Health Care & Policy” is planned to contain cutting edge research papers on the broad technologies comprising biomedical devices.
Specifically, sustainable rise in real incomes, rapid geriatric age population growth, favorable reimbursements, computer aided/innovative instrumentation, complementary technological progress, and freer global markets, are some of the major forces/trends positioning medical device (spinal implants, biologics, related treatment delivery devices and processes) technologies for a strong and potentially sustainable global growth. The US market in medical device alone is expected to reach $89 billion at the start of 2008 (knowledge@wharton.upenn.edu). Competitor Insights for Spinal Implants 2005 (source: Millennium Research Group) also projects the spinal implant sub-market alone to grow at the annual compounded rate of 12%, with the largest rise in the US (European and Asian markets are each projected to grow 6 %, from 2003 to 2009). The US in 2004 singularly accounted for roughly 82% of the world-wide sales in the spinal implants industry, and Asia Pacific and Europe shared the balance equally. The medical device (technology) market is essentially global and its constituent leading firms include Smith & Richards, Medtronic, DePuy (Johnson & Johnson), Synthes, Strkyer, and Zimmer.
Consequently, this special issue of HCMS welcomes a diverse set of paper submissions focusing on various aspects of resource allocation issues, firm- or industry- specific, using management science/ operations research optimization techniques/algorithms and/or theory-consistent econometric (or economic) models to inform competitive strategies or public policies for the health sector. Consistent with the established tradition of the journal HCMS, a Springer® publication, papers should contain:
- implications for health care consumers, medical device firms or industry, or public policy including health care, or
- innovative strategic positioning ideas for sustainable competitive advantage either in the framework of resource-based theory of the firm or Rumelt’s time-tested isolating mechanisms (R. Rumelt, “Towards a Strategic Theory of the Firm,” in Lamb, R. (ed.), Competitive Strategic Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1984, pp. 556-70).
Please submit potential contributions electronically through http://hcms.edmgr.com/ to meet the 24:00 h. deadline on June 30, 2008. Authors should state clearly in an accompanying cover letter that the paper is for consideration in the special issue on “Management Science and Economics of Medical Devices for Health Care & Policy.”
The targeted publication date is Dec. 2008 (vol. 11, #4) or Mar. 2009 (vol. 12, #1). HCMS is a peer-refereed journal with a 2004–06 Impact Factor of 2.5 and submissions will go through the standard double-blind refereeing process. HCMS is indexed/abstracted in ABI Inform, EconLit, Journal of Economic Literature, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), and SCOPUS.
Inquiries on a potential submission should be sent to:
Albert A. Okunade,
First Tennessee Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Health Care Economics, Office 450BB
(The Fogelman College of Business & Economics),
The University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN 38152
(901) 678-2672
aokunade@memphis.edu
June 30, 2008: Health Care
July 31, 2008
Submission deadline: 31 July 2008
Guest Editors
- Winnie Yip, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
- Adam Wagstaff, PhD, The World Bank, USA
- William C. Hsiao, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Health Economics is announcing a special issue on China, to be published in June 2009 to coincide with the 7th World Congress of Health Economics to be held in Beijing, July 2009. We are seeking papers on the following themes:
- Evaluation of the performance of China’s health care system, with priority given to the impacts of China’s recent health care reform initiatives on ensuring access to care, improving health outcome, providing ?nancial risk protection, improving equities in health and health care, reducing inef?ciencies and containing cost in?ation. In addition, economic analysis of the forms of health care purchasing and their effectiveness in improving China’s health system performance is highly encouraged.
- Economic and political economy theories that explain China’s health system reform measures.
- Determinants of health and health care inequities in China. Descriptive papers will not be considered.
Manuscripts should follow the usual instructions for electronic submission of papers to Health Economics. Authors should indicate that they wish their manuscript to be reviewed for inclusion in the special issue. All papers will be peer reviewed.
Joint authorship between international and domestic scholars is highly encouraged. The deadline for submitting papers for this special issue is July 31, 2008. Although not required, those who intend to submit a paper are strongly recommended to send an ‘intent to submit’ to Dr Winnie Yip, specifying the title and authors of the paper, with a brief statement on the content of the paper.
Any questions about the special issue can be directed to:
Dr Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip
Department of Public Health
Oxford University
UK
E-mail: wyip@hsph.harvard.edu or winnie.yip@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
July 31, 2008: Health Economics
September 1, 2008
Location: Milan, Italy
Dates: 4-6 December 2008
Submission deadline: 1 September 2008
Venue: University of Milan - Bicocca
In recent years, health econometrics has been playing an important role in supporting health and social care policy decisions. This Workshop provides the opportunity to disseminate advances in the methods and applications of health econometrics.
Submission of papers: Papers for the Workshop will be selected on the basis of full drafts. Papers should be sent in electronic form to the address healthecon@le.ac.uk no later than 1st September 2008. Decisions will be made by 20th September 2008. Authors will have the opportunity to submit their papers for publication in a special issue of Economic Modelling.
There will be 5 keynote speakers:
- Badi Baltagi - Syracuse University
- William Greene - New York University
- Alberto Holly - University of Lausanne
- Andrew Jones - University of York
- John Mullahy - University of Wisconsin
For further information about the Workshop you can contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at fm83@le.ac.uk or visit http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/healtheconometrics/
September 1, 2008: Health Economics