Health Research

December 6, 2007

Call for Papers and Participation: 7th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy

Location: Athens, Greece
Conference Dates: 10-13 July 2008
Abstract Deadline: 6 December 2007

The University of Athens (School of Law, Economics and Political Science) in collaboration with the Health Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organize their 7th International Conference in Athens, Greece, 10-13 July 2008. The conference website is http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Health.htm

There are two types of registration fees. First, a simple registration fee of 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Second, a full registration fee of 450 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material, a Greek night of entertainment, a dinner, a half-day tour to archaeological site in the Prefecture of Attica and a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of health economics, management and policy. Special Sessions will be devoted to Equity and Poverty in Health, Pharmaceutical Economics, Quality of Life, Economic Evaluation, Health Care Reforms, Social Security, School Health Programs, and Health Related Business.

Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.

Please submit a 300-word abstract (by email) by December 6th, 2007 to:

Dr. John Yfantopoulos, Professor,
School of Law, Economics and Political Science,
University of Athens, and Head of the Health Research Unit of ATINER,
8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki,
10671 Athens, Greece.

Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210
Fax: + 30 210 3634209
Email: health@atiner.gr
URL: http://www.atiner.gr/

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos,gtp@atiner.gr Director, ATINER.

December 6, 2007: Health Economics , Health Economics

November 30, 2007

Call for Papers: Special Issue "economics of innovation and technology in health care" in the journal : Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Deadline: 30 November 2007

Address for submission:

• Joan Costa-Font, LSE, J.costa-font@lse.ac.uk
• Christophe Courbage, christophecourbage@genevaassociation.org
• Andrea Mina, University of Manchester, a.mina@cbr.cam.ac.uk

Special Issue information: “Innovation and new technologies are key aspects of well-being and play an especially important role in health care. On the one hand, they are bringing about continuous improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and cure of diseases; on the other, they are capturing increasing shares of GDP in many countries and have been found to be primary driver of healthcare expenditures.??Understanding processes of change in the health care sector deserves more attention than it currently receives in the literature on the economics of innovation. We encourage submission on any area of the innovation process of health care along with papers examining the study of the barriers technology adoption, approaches to technology diffusion and especially production and consumption processes that are specific form the health care sector and that can be informative to the study of innovation in general.

Information on the journal:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10438599.html

Devoted to theoretical and empirical analysis of innovation and new technology, this peer-reviewed journal acts as a bridge between the contributions of economic theory and empirical economics in this field. The journal welcomes contributions across a wide range of issues concerned with innovation, including: innovation in product markets, process innovation, patenting, diffusion, innovation and technology policy, international competitiveness, standardization and network externalities, innovation and growth, technology transfer, innovation and market structure, innovation and the environment, and across a broad range of economic activity not just in ‘high technology’ areas. The journal also welcomes papers on research methods and data sources which contribute to the advancement of theoretical and empirical analysis.

November 30, 2007: Economics

November 26, 2007

AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group 2008 Meeting

Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: 7 June 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 November 2007

The Health Economics Interest Group (IG) Meeting will be held on June 7, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. the day prior to the AcademyHealth 2008 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) on June 8–10 in Washington, D.C. The program for the IG meeting is developed by volunteer members of the IG advisory committee who are conducting this call for papers.

The meeting will be structured as a workshop, during which presenters will provide a detailed discussion of their motivation, methods, and results, and discussants will have the opportunity to comment on and critique papers. Audience participation also will be encouraged by giving attendees access to the manuscripts prior to the meeting. The goal is to offer researchers the opportunity to present their research in-depth in a setting that promotes a higher level of exchange. Presenters will be required to submit completed papers one month prior to the meeting in order to provide discussants and participants time to read the research and prepare thoughtful commentary during the meeting.

Call for Papers:?The Health Economics IG Meeting call for papers offers researchers the opportunity to disseminate research on topics that may not be featured during the ARM. Specifically, the papers presented during this meeting will emphasize the application of rigorous economic methods to health policy issues.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of volunteer reviewers. Authors of selected abstracts will be required to provide a full manuscript on or before May 7, 2008.

Abstracts will be accepted beginning October 15, 2007. Submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on November 26, 2007, to be considered. Only abstracts submitted online will be considered. We encourage you to submit early to ensure prompt confirmation and processing. Results of the review will be sent by December 21, 2007.

Submission criteria and instructions are available online

Information about the Health Economics IG is available online.

November 26, 2007: Health Economics

November 10, 2007

2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008)

Location: Sanya, Hainan, China
Conference Dates: 28-30 May 2008
Submission Deadline: 10 November 2007

http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008

Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship

BioMedical engineering and informatics are two important and comple- mentary disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of biological, medical, pharmaceutical, and environmental research and development. Bridging these two disciplines enables us to improve our understanding of living organisms and develop innovative tech- niques towards personalized and predictive healthcare, such as real- time monitoring of health and detection, prevention and optimal treatment of complex diseases.

The purpose of the 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008) is to bring together world- wide researchers and scientists from these two disciplines to present and discuss state-of-the-art of engineering and informatics for biomedicine, and to foster international collaborations. The Conference calls for research papers that report original approaches, new results, and system developments in real biomedical applications.

The BMEI 2008 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be indexed in both EI and ISTP. Selected good papers will be recommended for publication in SCI/SCI-E indexed international journals.

The BMEI 2008 will be co-located with the 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008: http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008), in order to promote cross-fertilization between the broad areas of biomedical engineering and signal processing.

ABOUT SANYA

Sanya is one of China premier tourist destinations, with white-sand beaches, charming scenery, hot-springs, and popular activities such as scuba-diving and rafting. More than 20 ethnic groups, including Han, Li, Miao, and Hui, inhabit Sanya and make Sanya a wonderful place to appreciate the various cultures of China.

For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at bmei2008@hainu.edu.cn

Join us at this major event in scenic Hainan !!!

November 10, 2007: Health Research

October 26, 2007

72nd Health Economists' Study Group

Location: Norwich, England, UK
Dates: 9 - 11 January 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 October 2007

Venue: Dunston Hall, UEA, Norwich
Hosted by: The Health Economics Group, UEA Norwich

Call for Abstracts: This is an ordinary meeting 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 of one-hour sessions in which papers submitted in advance will be introduced and reviewed by a discussant other than the author.

Full details of the call for abstracts are available online

Please send a title and an abstract of up to 250 words of the proposed content by Friday, 26 October 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: hesg2008@uea.ac.uk

Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 7 December 2007

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 of no economics content will be rejected
• Work-in-progress papers and those at an early stage of development and encouraged. Reproduced reports and papers (especially those written for other audiences) and book chapters will be rejected.
• Authors, or sets of authors (but not institutions or units), may be restricted to one paper.

If all the above criteria are satisfied and the number of papers submitted still exceeds the number of slots available, papers may be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.

Contact us: Please e-mail all enquiries to hesg2008@uea.ac.uk

Your message will be forwarded to the appropriate member of the local organising committee for a response. Members of the local organising committee are: Val Knights, Miranda Mugford, Angela Robinson, Lisa Rowe, Ian Shemilt and Ed Wilson.

Registration: You can download the registration form

The early registration deadline is Friday, 30 November 2007. Please note hotel accommodation cannot be guaranteed after this date and a late fee may apply. Your booking cannot be confirmed until payment has been received. Please see website for full terms and conditions.

Please send completed registration forms and cheques to:

Val Knights
Health Economics Group
School of Medicine, Health Policy & Practice
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ

All further information about this meeting will be posted at: http://www.ioh.uea.ac.uk/hesg

October 26, 2007: Health Economics