For details please visit http://www.academyhealth.org/conferences/arm.htm

The diverse and sometimes opaque process of achieving successful pricing & reimbursement in Emerging Growth Markets presents many challenges to pharmaceutical companies seeking to access these dynamic and rapidly growing markets. This seminar aims to provide participants with key insights into major issues, and practical approaches to achieve successful pricing and reimbursement outcomes in these markets.

Program Highlights:

• Overview of Healthcare systems and in-depth analysis of Pricing and Reimbursement systems in key Emerging Markets
  • Asia Pacific: China, Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN
  • Central & Eastern Europe: Russia, Turkey, new EU states
  • LATAM: Brazil, Mexico
• Evolution of P&R models in Emerging Markets: Lessons to be learnt from other P&R models
  • Australia, Japan, US, EU
• Pharmacoeconomics in emerging markets: Payer demand and practical implementation
  • Coverage of pharmacoeconomics in pricing and reimbursement guidelines in emerging markets
  • Learning from recent experiences in EU15 markets and what could this mean for emerging markets
  • The tactical challenge: How to ensure satisfactory coverage of pharmacoeconomics in clinical development
  • Principles of message and data transfer between markets

For further details please visit http://www.emarketstraining.com/ or email info@emarketstraining.com

Sponsored by The American Evaluation Association & The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with support from the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors

Who should attend? Evaluators, applied researchers, grant makers, foundation program officers, nonprofit administrators, social science students, you! Register now as the Institute has a limited capacity and sessions are filled on a first-come basis.

What is the format? Three keynote addresses, three sets of three-hour training workshops, two rotations of 90-minute breakout sessions, plus two group lunches to allow for networking time among conference attendees.

Who is presenting? Experts who have conducted evaluations in a variety of settings, nationally known authors, those working on the cutting edge, and all selected for their ability to share their expertise in a way that is engaging and understandable.

What will I learn? You choose! Topics range from Evaluation Planning, Sampling, Causal Attribution, Focus Groups, and Appreciative Inquiry; to Reporting, Theory to Practice, System Dynamics, Cultural Competence, and more …

For more information and to register please see: http://www.eval.org/SummerInstitute07/07SIhome.asp

On behalf of INSEAD and its Healthcare Management Initiative, Johnson & Johnson and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), we cordially invite you to participate in our 2007 healthcare2020.forum on Globalization, Transformation and Health. The forum will be held 15-16 June on the INSEAD Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France.

This will be our largest ever healthcare2020.forum, welcoming top tier panelists from across the globe to address Leadership and Innovation, Sustainable Development and Global Diversity in Healthcare and the Life Sciences. This year the forum will be preceded, on 14 June, by the inaugural celebrations of the INSEAD Life Sciences Network - a global network including all INSEAD alumni and stakeholders in the fields of healthcare and the life sciences.

To register and access the detailed programme, please visit: http://www.insead.edu/hmi

More Information including Programme

Complete Announcement of Cost Action 866

The overall aim of this conference is to discuss how Green care services in agriculture can be further developed and organised by relevant research activities. This will be achieved by discussing conceptual and theoretical frameworks and research methods for assessing health effects, economics and social impact of various types of Green care services, and how these fit into current and future national health and social care systems.

Participants that are from the Action’s member countries can be eligible for reimbursement of their expenses, up to a maximum of six persons per country and within our overall budget (roughly 60 persons). We may have to consider a good balance between countries, working groups and scientific expertise when this selection is made. For those being able to pay their own expenses, the conference is open to anybody within the available space.

ABOUT THIS COST ACTION

COST is European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technological Research, and is a scientific network programme under European Science Foundation. It is administered by a Management Committee of 1-2 persons being representatives of each of the member countries of the Action. This Action presently has 14 member countries, and its activities are regulated by the Memorandum of Understanding. COST cannot fund research projects, but coordinates scientific work.

‘Green care’ is the utilisation of agricultural farms - the animals, the plants, the garden, the forest, and the landscape - as a base for promoting human mental and physical health, as well as quality of life, for a variety of client groups. A multidisciplinary scientific effort is essential to further develop green services as part of a multifunctional agriculture. This COST Action will coordinate research and develop new research on green care in biological, medical and health sciences, including conceptual, theoretical, and methodological developments. The Action will also focus on economics and management of green care farming, as well as developing policies and discussing how green care can fit current and future national health and social care systems, and affect rural development positively.

The main objective of the Action is to increase the scientific knowledge on the best practices for implementing green care in agriculture with the aim of improving human mental and physical health and the quality of life.

The scientific work in the Action is based on three Working Groups (WGs):

WG 1: Health effects of green care

Chair: Joe Sempik, UK

The main aim of this Working Group is to coordinate research and develop new research in biological, medical and health sciences for the purpose of gaining new insight into the effects of various types of green care on several aspects of physical and mental health and the quality of life of people. The work must include conceptual and theoretical discussions and developments, as well as discussions on research methodologies.

Milestones:

1. Development of a conceptual framework and theoretical models for the health promoting mechanisms of green care.
2. Comparison and discussion of ongoing research projects related to health effects on people.
3. Establishment of a set of good research methodologies.

WG 2: Economics of green care

Chair: Saverio Senni, Italy

The main aim of this Working Group is to coordinate research and develop new research on economics and management of green care farming. This includes the cost-benefit effectiveness of green care across the economic spectrum (micro, mezzo and macro levels) within the framework of multifunctional agriculture, market based versus governmental based economics, marketability of public goods and positive agricultural externalities, as well as measurements of the positive externalities of Animal Assisted Therapy and Horticultural Therapy.

Milestones:

1. Development of a methodology to determine the economic benefits of green care services for farmers, for other parts of the agricultural sector and for the health and social care sectors, and also the social returns of such services.
2. Development of systems to support green care regionally and nationally.
3. Development of a research programme on economics of green care.

WG 3: Policies related to green care88

Chair: Thomas van Elsen, Germany

The main aim of this Working Group is to investigate how green care fits into current and future national health and social care systems. This includes the organisation of the green care system and the building up of the network behind the health and social care systems. A further aim is to define how rural development is affected; creation of new jobs and strengthening of the economic viability of rural communities, those of less-favoured and remote rural areas in particular.

Milestones:

1. Definition of terms and concepts for the different services of green care.
2. Evaluation of the contribution of green care not only to rural and agricultural policies, but also to policies in health care and social care.
3. Development of a research agenda - policies of green care.

AIMS FOR THE CONFERENCE

The overall aim of this conference is to discuss how Green care services in agriculture can be further developed and organised by relevant research activities. This will be achieved by discussing conceptual and theoretical frameworks and research methods for assessing health effects, economics and social impact of various types of Green care services, and how these fit into current and future national health and social care systems.

The discussions in the Working Groups (WGs) will draw on the experience and discussions of the COST Workshop held in Brussels 4-5 December 2006. After presenting and discussing different situations in various countries during the last meeting we want to make steps forward in order to build up a network behind the health and social care systems. The affection of rural development and the economic viability of rural communities, especially of less-favoured and remote rural areas, will be taken into account as well. More details are to be found in the minutes of the last meeting.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite offers of presentations in the plenary sessions (15 minutes), in the Working Groups (10-15 minutes), or as posters. Presentations should either be presentations of research results, scientific methods you currently use, or theoretical or conceptual issues. Priority will be given to presentations which are judged to contribute best to fulfilment of the aims of the conference. The number of presentations will be limited to ensure adequate time for discussions.

Those offering a presentation must submit a one-page abstract that clearly indicates the authors’ names, addresses and e-mail address to corresponding author, objectives, methods, main research results (if any), theoretical/conceptual issues (if any), and conclusions. These abstracts must accompany the Registration Form to be submitted by 10th March 2007.

The Scientific Committee, which is the same as the Executive Committee of the COST Action, develops a final programme based on offered presentations and the discussion topics. Those having their abstracts accepted, for oral or poster presentations, must submit an extended two-page summary based on a given template for the Proceedings of the conference by 15th May. After the conference, we will consider inviting some of the presenters to submit a full article for a book to be published by COST.

Cost Action - Green Care web site

The fifth global NHA symposium will be hosted in Lund, Sweden, in conjunction with the iHEA Conference in Copenhagen in 2007.

The aim of the fifth global NHA symposium is to highlight the usefulness of the tool in monitoring efforts to strengthen health systems in different countries. The symposium will be a two-day workshop, financed by Sida and USAID. The participants are expected to have different levels of knowledge about the concept of NHA and its applications. The program will include training and information sessions regarding the production of NHA as well as benefits and policy implications of using the tool to inform policy processes and evaluate results of reforms. Presentations will be made by representatives from different organisations who are involved in the production and/or use of NHA, e.g. health ministries, research institutes and universities in different countries, donor organisations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.

For queries, please contact Anna H Glenngård (ag@ihe.se) at IHE.

For registration and visa and scholarship applications please visit iHEA’s 6th World Congress website.

Venue to be announced.

The workshop is being organised by members of the Danish Hospital Institute, the University of Cape Town and Curtin University (Perth, Australia). There will be a small fee to help cover some of the costs, but we will try to keep this as low as possible.

Vicente Navarro has agreed to be the Key Note opening speaker.

Bob Evans has agreed to chair the workshop and facilitate discussion.

The other speakers (who have all confirmed their participation) are:

• David Coburn
• Amiya Bagchi
• Gavin Mooney
• Maureen Mackintosh
• Di McIntyre

Plenty of time will be left for questions and discussion in between the presentations. In addition, there will be a final panel discussion which will allow for further participation in the workshop:

Panel discussion: ‘Where to now? - what should we collectively be doing to promote more work and advocacy around the political economy of health?’ - to include abovementioned speakers and Jes Sogaard and Bob Evans

More information will be available later. If interested contact Gavin Mooney g.mooney@curtin.edu.au

• Important Dates & Deadlines
• Abstract and Session Submissions & Examples
• Registration Rates for Members and Non-Members
• Pre-Conference Session Rates
• Refunds
• Scholarships
  • Developing Country Presenters
  • Students
• Visa Requirements
  • Denmark
  • Sweden
• Official Airline Network

For further details please visit: the 6th World Congress Conference site

Venue: DANIDA, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Udenrigsministeriet) Asiatisk Plads 2, Copenhagen, Denmark

Download: Controversies in Health Care Financing: Perspectives and Debate [PDF - 367KB]

Download: Agenda [PDF - 72KB]

Special Session on Future Directions in Health Care Financing (Perspectives and Debate) which will be held at the 6th Congress of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) at DANIDA in Copenhagen on July 8, 2007.

Objectives of the Pre-Conference Session on Health Financing

Although much is known about the issues and policy options for improving health financing in other regions and higher income levels, there is still a considerable knowledge gap on how best to approach this challenge in the context of the low-income levels and weak institutional capacity. The overall goal of the pre conference session on health care financing will be to deepen understanding about how to secure:

• more fiscally sustainable sources of funding for the health sector;
• improved management of financial vulnerability; and
• better value for money spent on health care

Without additional money and better spending in the health sector, the Africa region and low-income countries in other regions will not achieve the MDG goals. Given the binding constraints on fiscal space allocated to the health sector, business as usual is unlikely to secure a sustainable source of financing for these countries. Yet moving forward on the health financing agenda is not easy. The proposed session will examine and debate the role of several major funding mechanism that are at the center of a lively debate on health care financing in both low-income and higher-income countries today. They include:

• Fee Exemption vs User Fees
• Government Funded National Health Services vs Social Health Insurance
• Solidarity vs Consumer Driven Health Financing
• Old vs New International Health Financing Architecture

Each of the four sessions will start with a presentation of the key issues raised by the particular topic in question. This will be followed by a panel debate on the key controversial issues raised by the particular topic. The panelists will be policymakers and analysts that have real on the ground experience. Given known ongoing debate on the role of each of these topics, panelists will be chosen who represent diverse views on each of the selected topics.

Notification decisions: 2 March 2007
Submission of papers: 1 June 2007

The spatial dimension of economic structures and processes has become increasing relevant in theoretical and applied research in the social sciences. The 1st World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association aims to bring together economists, econometricians and regional scientists to discuss the present achievements and future challenges and opportunities. The conference will be held on 11-14 July 2007 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.

Visit http://www.sea2007.com/

Papers on any health economics topic dealing with spatial issues are particularly welcomed.

http://www.internationalhealth2007.com/

This 3-day event will focus on areas of clinical medicine, public health and health policy which are of particular relevance to South Eastern European countries.

These countries, and the European Union as a whole, are presented with a very particular set of challenges in the domain of health care delivery. The conference will address recent medical advances in areas of high public health significance and the implications of these in local and Europe-wide health policy development. This is the first time that a meeting attempts to address this combination of themes which, though intimately linked, are rarely addressed together in an inter-professional fashion. The conference will be of interest to a variety of people, from clinicians to public health physicians, health managers, civil service and politicians.

Anne McSweeney, Manager - Conferences, Royal College of Physicians
Tel: ++ 44 20 7935 1174 ext 251, ++ 44 20 224 0719,
E-mail: conferences@rcplondon.ac.uk

The 24th International Conference of ISQua, The International Society for Quality in Health Care, in Boston will start on the evening of Sunday 30 September and finish on the afternoon of Wednesday 3 October 2007. An impressive group of leaders have agreed to be plenary presenters for the Boston program. These will be announced announced this month.

For ISQua’s Boston Conference program, abstracts are being invited for a major track across the program on E-Health as it applies to patient safety and quality, and lessons learned from hands-on practice.

IN ADDITION, other program tracks will cover new initiatives and lessons learned in the areas of, but not limited to:

• Performance Measures/Indicators
• Patient safety
• Patients - informed, consulted, empowered
• Workforce
• Systems
• Accreditation and other evaluation services
• Clinical performance improvement

A major focus for each track will be Oral and Poster presentations. Additional Posters will be selected for display only.

CLOSING DATE for ABSTRACT submissions: No later than Monday 12 March 2007.

Abstracts are to be submitted ON-LINE. Go to the Boston star on ISQua’s home page: http://www.isqua.org/

The steps for submitting abstracts are set out in the Boston conference section on the ISQua site. Please refer to the instructions and use the skeleton abstract framework provided. A separate registration form and file must be submitted for each abstract. All abstracts will be acknowledged.

Check ISQua’s website for regular program updates.

Theme: “Towards responsibility and compliance in the innovation and management of healthcare technologies: international perspectives and comparative experiences”

About the HCTM Association

HCTM is about redesigning the health care delivery system

Major transformations are occurring in the delivery of healthcare worldwide. Medical and healthcare related technologies are increasingly having a significant impact on many dimensions of healthcare. Innovations introduced during the last decade have had cumulative and complex effects altering both treatment of disease and the way healthcare is delivered. This radical evolutionary trend will persist and indeed be compounded by the continuing technologically-driven progress in medicine. Areas such as tele-medicine, tele-health, tele-mentoring, computerized medical records, e-health and use of the Internet in B2B and B2C applications in healthcare are some of the milestones in the near total revamping of the healthcare landscape. Innovations in medical and healthcare technologies have already transformed therapeutic interventions and operations, design, layout and mission of hospitals. In this respect, the challenges for the future provide an exciting opportunity for study, reflection, planning and action.

HCTM is about exploring key issues and trends

The association provides a forum for identifying and exploring key issues relating to healthcare, technology and management and in formulating and setting up research agendas in this field for the future.

HCTM is an international network

We are a network of academics and managers from around the world interested in advancing and disseminating knowledge about healthcare, technology and management. HCTM is a global network with international links where people can get together to communicate experiences and exchange ideas. It is a network that bridges the gap between research and clinical/ managerial practice.

HCTM is a multidisciplinary network

The association is concerned with a variety of different fields, including: changes and transformations in society, application of information technologies, emerging technologies in medical care and their role in modern clinical management.

HCTM focuses on the development and application of knowledge

Excellence in the provision of improved healthcare relies on and is thus led by new knowledge based on related R &D.

Conference Background: Over the years in the previous HCTM annual conferences we have examined the returns and benefits of medical technologies, the application and organisational aspects of creating and implementing cutting-edge technologies, the trends and the advances made in the field of technology and its management in healthcare delivery, and the challenges for the future. Against this background, the next conference in 2007 seeks to encourage an international and multidisciplinary debate on the “responsibility and compliance in the management of healthcare technologies in an integrated healthcare system”. As this issue is complex and multifaceted, several different theories, approaches, perspectives and dialogues are required to achieve a common understanding necessary to define the state of the art.

Papers will be expected to deal with the identification and analysis of the different roles and contributions, and therefore with the responsibilities of the different actors involved in the development, adoption and management of cost-effective and appropriate healthcare technologies, i.e., manufacturers, sales agencies, scholars, researchers, regulators, payers (including insurers), managers (including risk managers), and professionals.

Conference theme and sections: The theme for the 6th International Conference on the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology is “Towards responsibility and compliance in the management of healthcare technologies: international perspectives and comparative experiences”.

The conference will explore the issue of responsibility with respect to each phase of the healthcare technology life cycle; hence the conference will have the following general sections:

• Section 1 - Healthcare technology development: concept generation of innovative healthcare technology; ethical issues concerning innovative healthcare technology; projected future research direction needs; technology-driven innovations versus health need-driven innovations; uptake and safe diffusion of new medical technologies/ devices, constructive health technology assessment; product life cycle management models for healthcare technology.

• Section 2 - Healthcare technology compliance and regulation: commercialization authorization; liability and insurance issues in healthcare technology; Health Technology Assessment and reimbursement decisions; trends, advances, and challenges of technology in healthcare and the social policy issues of health care delivery: affordability, access, availability; Compliance and ethical implications; Trends and advances in technology for healthcare delivery and the issue of quality of care; The role of government and its influence on trends, advances, challenges and future research in technology for healthcare delivery.

• Section 3 - Healthcare technology adoption by the healthcare organization: hospital based-Health Technology Assessment; investment planning and programming; businessplanning;

• Section 4 - Healthcare technology management by the healthcare organization: organizational impacts, change management; business process re-engineering; technology overlapping; development of sound information systems; performance measurement; audit; maintenance; safety and replacement plans; anonymous incident reporting systems;

• Section 5 - Contributions from PhD students are welcome and encouraged. One section of the Conference is allocated to presentations by PhD students on the subject matter of their doctoral thesis (at all stages of preparation). The students presenting their work will thus have the opportunity to explain and defend their research questions, the investigative approach and methodology they have chosen to test their hypotheses to a qualified audience of experts, thus benefiting from useful suggestions and feedback on their work. Alternatively, PhD students whose research project is in an advanced stage can decide to present the outcome of their research in one of the above mentioned sections.

For all sections papers dealing with benchmarking across countries, regions and types of providers and payer systems are especially welcome.

Who should attend? The conference is of interest to a variety of groups and professionals within the larger industry of healthcare and healthcare delivery. These groups include medical and healthcare practitioners, researchers, academics, manufacturers, jurists, regulators, and consultants involved in all the phases of development, delivery, evaluation, risk management, research or teaching of healthcare services and of healthcare technologies management.

Included in this list, are also the manufacturers of medical instruments and healthcare equipment/ devices; pharmaceutical companies; biotechnology companies; providers of information and telecommunication technology for healthcare delivery; regulatory agencies; medical and healthcare professional groups and associations; insurance and other financial companies involved in healthcare; and faculty and students in programs in healthcare management, technology, policy, strategy, economics, and ethics.

All are invited to submit papers relevant to the conference theme, sections and topics described above.

Submissions

1. Abstract submission: If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract (max 500 words) to the conference coordinator at: HCTMconference2007@sssup.it Each abstract should contain:
   • Paper title
   • All authors’ names, with details of the Institution and full postal address, telephone, fax, email address of the corresponding author, identified by the name being underlined
   • Section of choice and 2nd preference
   • Each conference participant is not expected to present more than two papers, although he/she may be co-author of other papers presented at the Conference.
2. Paper submission: If you are invited to present a full paper for presentation during the conference, please follow the presentation guidelines which you will find nearer the event on the conference website.
3. Ph.D. submissions for the PhD section should contain a statement that the paper is being submitted to the Ph.D. section, and should include the title of the thesis. Papers submitted for other sections should indicate 1st and 2nd section preferences.

KEY DATES

• Deadline submission of abstract: 8 June 2007
• Authors will be notified of acceptance: 19 June 2007
• Deadline submission of full paper: 27 August 2007
• Deadline registration: 3 September 2007

Proceedings and Publication: All the papers selected for oral presentation at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings and in a CD-ROM distributed at the conference to all conference participants who register for the conference. Selected papers, following peer-review, will be included in a special issue of the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management. In addition, a book based on selected papers presented at the Conference is also planned.

Contact: For additional information, please visit http://www.sssup.it/HCTMconference2007 or contact the conference coordinator at: HCTMconference2007@sssup.it

Scientific Commitee

• Stefania Lorenzini, IRPET: lorenzini@irpet.it
• Cristina Ugolini, University of Bologna: cristina.ugolini@unibo.it
• Mario Del Vecchio, University of Florence and CERGAS–University Bocconi Milan: mario.delvecchio@uni-bocconi.it
• Cesare Cislaghi, Regional Health Care Agency-Tuscany and University of Milan: cesare.cislaghi@arsanita.toscana.it

Organization and Conference Secretariat

• Lucia Dalla Villa: dallavilla@irpet.it
• Grazia Cadeddu: cadeddu@irpet.it

IRPET, Via La Farina, 27, 50132, Florence - Italy
Phone: +39 055 57411 Fax: +39 055 574155

The theme of the Conference – Priorities and Equity in Health Care Policy - may be faced both with theoretical and empirical papers pertaining either to Italian or foreign experiences. Some examples of topics that fit the Conference targets include:

• Basic levels of public health care: definition, consistency, impact on management
• Funding and resource allocation at regional and local level: criteria, methods and effects
• Determinants of health needs: macroeconomic effects and scope for public intervention
• Relevance of ethical and economic values in defining priorities and management choices
• Costs of unappropriate care: analysis and intervention strategies
• Inequalities in health and access conditions, equity in health care delivery and finance
• Policy options for reducing inequalities and promoting equity
• Models, tools and experiences of measurement of equity and quality in health care
• Responsibility of health care management in pursuing equity

A limited number of papers not specifically pertaining to the Conference theme will be admitted for discussion in one ore more free sessions.

Some sessions in English language will be organized. The languages of the conference are English and Italian (with no simultaneous translation).

All information on the Conference will be published on AIES website: http://www.aiesweb.it

This year’s meeting will focus on:

• Exploring the science of decisions
• Consumer-driven, individualized health care

Keynote Address: Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer with The New Yorker and author of the bestselling books “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” and “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference”, will speak about topics related to making decisions in his talk: “Lessons from the Outside”.

Call for Short Courses: SMDM is now accepting proposals for Short Courses for the 2007 Annual Meeting. Submission form is available at http://www.smdm.org/. The deadline for submission of these proposals is March 5, 2007

Call for Nominations for the 2007 SMDM Awards: Program is designed to recognize distinguished service to SMDM and/or the medical decision making field. Visit http://www.smdm.org/ for detailed descriptions of awards, past recipients, and eligibility requirements. Deadline for award nominations: April 1, 2007

Call for Abstracts: Submit your original work for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Oral and Poster format. Electronic submission site and detailed instructions will be available starting March 2 at http://www.smdm.org/. Deadline for abstract submission: June 8, 2007

Mark Your Calendar

• February 1, 2007 - Hotel Reservation Opens
• March 2, 2007 - Abstract Submission Site Opens
• March 5, 2007 - Call for Short Courses Due
• April 1, 2007 - Call for Awards Nominations Due
• June 8, 2007 - Abstract Submission Deadline
• June 13, 2007 - Meeting Registration Opens
• October 20-24, 2007 - 2007 SMDM Annual Meeting

In the light of this main subject, we hope to be able to create a time to exchange initiatives and successful practices in relation to the three essential fields of action in Public Health:

• Health protection
• Disease prevention
• Health promotion

We consider that revising our day-to-day experiences is the best basis to define the essential dimensions, services and education needs in each of the three aforementioned fields, and in short, in Public Health services in the European region.

The conference allows us to learn about the initiatives taken in different countries, to know the policies and successful practices and to go deep into the various aspects, always with the purpose of improving the education and task performance of the Public Health professionals.

http://www.aspher2007valencia.org/

Contact:

Eva Garcia
organising@aspher2007valencia.org

For details please visit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/future_past.htm

Venue: Langham Hotel

There are always new ideas around about what will make health services more effective, efficient, and equitable but how many are backed by evidence or have been shown to work as well as their protagonists would have us believe? This conference will provide a perfect end-of-year opportunity for researchers, policymakers, managers, and practitioners from New Zealand, Australia and other countries to get together and consider the extent to which past innovations have lived up to expectations and to examine whether ideas now being touted as solutions for health services are supported by evidence.

For more information please visit: http://www.healthservicesconference.com.au/

Reserve Jan 7-9, 2008 for SOA’s Living to 100 Symposium

With the support of 41 participating organizations, the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Living to 100 Research Symposia is organizing its third, triennial international symposium on high-age mortality and related issues taking place Jan. 7-9, 2008, in Orlando, Florida.

Actuaries, demographers, gerontologists and other professionals from around the world will be among those presenting papers on such thought-provoking subjects as:

• Mortality trends and projection methods;
• Theories on aging;
• Enhanced mortality rate and population projections; and
• Implications of an aging population for social, financial, health care and retirement systems.

The 2008 symposium features concurrent sessions and panel discussions to accommodate the many new topics added to the program. Well-known scientist, Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, American Cancer Society professor and director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, is planned to provide an exciting and informative keynote address.

Look for the final program this summer

For more information, visit us online

Questions may be directed to livingto100@soa.org.

For details please visit http://www.academyhealth.org/conferences/arm.htm