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October 28, 2008
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Health Economics: Cuban Society of Health Economics (Sociedad Cubana de Economía de la Salud, SCES)
Location: Havana, Cuba
Dates: October 28-31 2008
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Presidents: José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera & Roberto Verrier Castro
Vice-Presidents: Pedro Hidalgo Prado, Osvaldo Castro Miranda & Blanca Rosa Pampin Balado
Chair Scientific Committee: Ana María Gálvez González
CONTACTS
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION:
Manuel Alvarez Muñiz
Organizing Committee Coordinator
Email: malvarezm@infomed.sld.cu
HOTEL BOOKING:
Vivian Calzado
HAVANATUR
Email: viviancalzado@havanatur.cu
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF:
- Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba (ANECC)
- Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (MINSAP)
- Sociedad Cubana de Economía de la Salud (SCES)
- Asociación Brasileña de Economía de la Salud
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud de Argentina
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud de Chile
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud del Uruguay
- Centro para el Control Estatal de los Medicamentos (CECMED) de Cuba
- Agencia de Vigilancia Sanitaria (ANVISA) de Brasil.
- Organización Panamericana de la Salud
- Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica de Cuba
CONFERENCE BACKGROUND:
THE III LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CONGRESS ON HEALTH ECONOMICS is a continuation to its two former congresses held in Brazil (2004) and Argentina (2006). Now, the main subject of the congress will be “The Role of Health Economics, as a means to face the health needs of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, within the framework of solidarity and integration processes”. Cuban experience in these subjects is quite large and rewarding, expecting therefore this congress will result satisfactory to criteria exchange, in benefit both to the Economists as well as to the Health Specialists, regarding an integrating and socializing approach.
At the same time will take place the “FIRST SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP OF REGULATION AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SANITARY TECHNOLOGIES”, bearing the objective of promoting the exchange of viewpoints, experiences, knowledge and projects over pharmaceutical market regulations, price control of medicaments and the application of pharmacy-economy in the decision-making process.
CONFERENCE SUBJECTS:
- Health Economy involving the Latin-American Integration Process.
- Public Financing and State Involvement.
- Planning and Resources Management and Control.
- Health Economic Efficiency.
- Health Services Financing.
- Planning and Management of Health Services Personnel.
- Personnel Forming in Health Economics
- National Pharmaceutical Policies and Economic Regulation of Medicaments.
ATTENDANTS PROFILES:
Professionals, technicians and personnel linked to Health Economics and related disciplines. Also, professionals and health technicians interested in Health Economics and Economic Evaluation of Sanitary Technologies
THE SCIENTIFIC SCHEDULE OF THE CONGRESS WILL CONSIST ON FOUR MODALITIES:
- Conferences.
- Round-table conference over the same subject.
- Free themes.
- Posters.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Applicants interested in presenting their expositions in any of the afore mentioned modalities, are to send them (preferably finished), prior to June 30th, 2008 for its approval, to the President of the Scientific Committee:
Dra. C. Ana María Gálvez González
galveza@infomed.sld.cu
econ@ensap.sld.cu
In case of summaries, the following scheme is recommended:
- Introduction
- Objective
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusions.
Names of authors and co-authors are to be included. The name of the expositor of the paper to be presented must be highlighted within the names of the authors and co-authors. The corresponding acknowledgement of receipt will be sent in due time.
PUBLICATION:
All works accepted will be mentioned in the relevant CD of the Congress
REGISTRATION FEE
Delegate: 250.00 CUC
Accompany: 60.00 CUC
October 2008: Health Economics
PRIORITIES 2008: Conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care
Location: Newcastle-Gateshead, England, UK
Conference dates: 28-31 October 2008
Venue: Sage Concert Hall
“Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory”
In October 2008, the conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care returns to the UK, this time to the north-east of England. Formed in 1996, following the first international conference on this topic held in Stockholm, the purpose of the Society is to provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners involved in priority setting can exchange ideas and experience. Particular importance is placed on: getting research into practice; learnings across poorer and richer nations; and encouraging practitioners to learn about approaches to priority setting and researchers to learn from real practical experience.
Much has changed in the eight years since the Society was last in the UK. Building on this, the main theme of this conference is very much about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving frameworks used for this purpose across lower and higher income countries. Thus, we aim to:
- achieve participation from practitioners at all levels of health care (from national through to local) as well as the public;
- create a vibrant environment for two-way learning, from theory to practice and practice to theory;
- enhance learning about managing scarcity in more equitable and efficient ways, and, thus, for the greater benefit of the populations we serve.
Key topics for discussion and presentation will be as follows:
- theoretical and methodological advances in priority setting (reconciling health system objectives, the ethical and the economic, understanding how organisations learn and how organisations can change, developments in health technology assessment, evaluating public health interventions)
- practical advances in priority setting (accounting for the politics of health care, managing scarcity in resource-deprived environments of lower-income countries, achieving disinvestment in health care)
- achieving real solutions (handling the media storm, legal issues and conflict resolution in priority setting, meaningful public involvement, making the academic practical)
- knowledge transfer and exchange (working across sectoral and disciplinary boundaries, learning from the private sector, barriers to engaging in knowledge transfer research)
- information to underpin decisions (can we make decisions with little evidence? what are the informational requirements of decision makers both at a national, local and individual client levels? Can these be met?)
You will soon be hearing form us about keynote speakers and the process of abstract submission and workshops. Until then, please mark this exciting event in your diaries. The conference has a Local Organising Committee which is being convened by the Institute of Health Society at Newcastle University by Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson. If you would like any more details or to make any suggestions, please contact Eileen Coope (eileen.coope@ncl.ac.uk).
We look forward to seeing you in Newcastle-Gateshead in 2008.