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/

Location: Venice, Italy
Conference dates: 27-29 March 2009
Submission Deadline: 30 October 2008

Submissions of Abstracts are being accepted for the 9th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Quality and Outcomes in Mental Health Policy and Economics, Venice, Italy, March 27-29, 2009.

The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics (please visit the Journal at http://www.icmpe.org/ will publish the Abstracts selected for presentation at the 9th Venice Workshop in Vol. 12, Supplement 1, 2009.

Detailed information on the 9th Workshop and on the abstracts submission process is available at http://www.icmpe.org/test1/events/events.htm

Subject areas

The subject areas (not exhaustive) for the submission of abstracts of original research are listed below.

• The Burden of Mental and Addictive Disorders
  • Burden of Illness / Cost of Illness Studies
  • Costs of Psychiatric and Medical Comorbidities
  • Family and Worksite Consequences
  • Labor Market Impacts
• The Value of Psychiatric Treatments and Services Provision
• Cost-benefit, Cost-effectiveness, and Cost-utility Analysis of:
  • Inpatient and Outpatient Services
  • New Psychotropic Medications for Mental and Addictive Disorders
  • Psychotherapy and Psychological Treatments
  • Psychosocial Interventions
  • Preventive Services
  • The Value of Treatment Guidelines
• Effectiveness and Utility Measures in Outcomes Analysis
  • Clinical Measures:
    • Diagnosis, Symptoms, Disabilities, Quality of Life
    • Treatment Side-effects
    • Disorder-specific and General Health Measures
  • Social Measures:
    • Social Activity Measures
    • Productivity Measures
  • Utility Measures:
    • Utility Measures of Disease-specific and General Health States and Disabilities
• Quality indicators
  • Performance Measures
  • Pay for Performance
  • Evidence based Reimbursement
• * Financing Psychiatric Services and Treatments*
  • Analysis of Services for Mental and Addictive Disorders
  • Public and Private Financing of Psychiatric Services
  • Contractual Arrangements and Financial Risks for Providers and Payers
  • Parity in Financing Psychiatric and Medical Services
  • Access to psychiatric services and treatments
  • Reimbursements of services and pharmaceuticals
  • Aging, Epidemiological Transition and Planning of Psychiatric Services
• Financing Psychiatric and Social Services for Special Populations
  • Financing Community Psychiatric Services for:
  • Severe Mental and Addictive Disorders
  • Deinstitutionalization of Long-term Institutionalized Individuals
  • Young Severely Ill Patients
  • Chronic Psychiatric Patients
  • Medically Underserved Populations
  • Minorities
  • Health and Socioeconomic Disparities
• Rationing
  • Management of Psychiatric Care
  • Rationing Psychiatric Services, Burden on Families and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
  • Formularies
  • Cost-Shifting Patterns between Psychiatric and Social Services
• Ethics and Perspectives
  • Need, Demand and Medical Necessity
  • Analysis of Perspectives and Behaviors (Patients, Families, Clinicians, Payers, Mental Health Services and Health Technology Providers, Managed Care Companies, Society)
  • User Behavior and Moral Hazard
  • Involuntary Commitment Policies and Practices
• Mental Health Policy
  • Mental Health Policy Formulation
  • Analysis of Mental Health Policy Implementation
  • Drug Reimbursement Policy Models
  • Mental Health Policies in Different Regions of the World

Please direct questions regarding this Call for Papers to:

Massimo Moscarelli, MD
moscarelli@icmpe.org
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