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May 28, 2008
"Economics, Behavior, and Health" - XXVIII Jornadas de Economía de la Salud: Asociación de Economía de la Salud
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Dates: 28-30 May 2008
Venue: Hospedería Fonseca, Salamanca
Theme: “Economics, Behavior, and Health”
Conference Background:
Decisions regarding health and the provision of health services not only depend on purely economic incentives but also in habits and psycho-social and emotional conditions. They often drive to results which are difficult to explain under a traditional framework. The field of behavioral economics is devoted to explain those phenomena taking into account the informational and auto-control constraints that individuals bear and make them systematically make mistakes. Those constraints have already been used in psychology. However, economic science may provide helpful evidence for public policy.
This topic has been chosen for the XXVIII Jornadas de Economía de la Salud because it responds to the evidence that the health sector is characterized by the imperfect and asymmetric information available for individuals, and the frequent need of taking decisions with a high uncertainty in a framework of anxiety or urgency and the existence of large laps between the adoption of lifestyle and habits and their effects in the health status. From this perspective, we are able to go deeply in questions such as: why does clinical practice variation exist? Why does not it converge to the standard levels provided by the cost-effectiveness analysis? Why do not some patients comply properly their treatments? Why does not the demand of health services respond to information on the clinical effort of health providers? Do we have to trust on the subjective measures of quality of life related to health status? Or Why do we maintain our bad habits as uncompensated diets, smoking, or not practicing sports even if we know that it is bad for our health?
The scientific program will develop this topic with special focus on policy experiences, management tools and organizational methods to help guarantee the financial sustainability of the health system and help improve the health status of the population. As usual, the Spanish Health Economics Association Conference offer the opportunity to present recent research further the main topic of the conference, on other fields regarding Health Economics, Health Management or Health Policy. Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit your research.
The scientific committee has provided as a guideline different areas in which abstracts have to be classified. Those areas are:
- Economic analysis of health
- Lifestyles
- Provision of socio-health services
- Dependency
- Equity and inequity
- Public Health Economics
- Economic Evaluation and evaluation of pharmaceutical technology
- Health Expenditure and the Financing of Public Health
- Management, organization and innovations in health centers
- Immigration
- Human Resources
- Demand and Utilization of health services
- Health status Measurement
- Econometrics and quantitative methods
- Industrial Organization
- Clinical practice variation
- Health insurance
Key Dates
- Early bird registration: 10 April 2008
Contact: For additional information, please visit or web page:
or contact by email at secretaria@aes.es
