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January 3, 2007
70th Health Economists' Study Group
Dates: 3 January - 5 January 2007
Abstract submission deadline: 27 October 2006
Hosted by: Health Economics Facility, University of Birmingham
Full details available at: http://www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk/hef/hesg2007/
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* Papers will be selected from those submitted by the organisers using the criteria set out below* 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.
Abstracts
Deadline: 27th October 2006
Please send a title and an abstract of up to 250 words of the proposed content by Friday 27 October 2006 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 in the body of the e-mail [NOT as an attachment] by e-mail, using the subject header ‘HESG abstract’, to hesg2007@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Authors will be notified and the programme will be announced with an invitation for chairs & discussants on 10 November 2006.
Papers
Deadline: 8th December 2006
If your abstract is accepted, we will be asking you to submit your paper in Word or PDF format, either as an e-mail attachment or on disk, by Friday 8th December 2006.
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 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.
Local Academic Organiser
Emma Frew
tel: 0121 414 3199; email: E.Frew@bham.ac.uk
Administrative Enquiries
Helen Evans, HESG administrator
Health Economics Facility
Health Services Management Centre
Park House, 40 Edgbaston Park Road,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2RT
UK
Tel: 0121 414 7694
Fax: 0121 414 7051
Email: hesg2007@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Further details: http://www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk/hef/hesg2007/
