7^th World Congress on Health Economics

Submission for Abstracts and Session Proposals

Individual abstract and session submission opens September 15, 2008 and ends December 3, 2008.

Note that you will require a 2008 iHEA membership to have your submission fee waived (Individual, Affiliate, Student, Low-income and Joint memberships are eligible). Otherwise you will need to pay the US$ 125 Non-Member Submission Fee.

Individual Abstracts: You may submit individual abstracts using our online form. We will confirm submission to the individual abstract presenter within 72 hours of submission.

Organized Sessions: Session submissions are being accepted via Email to submissions@healtheconomics.org.

Discussants

If you want to have Discussants in your Organized Session, you must provide their names. Discussants are optional for Panel and Abstract-Driven Organized Sesions. They are not provided for open call sessions.

Disclosure

Disclosure of funding sources for the session as well as other potential conflicts of interest will be required for both individual abstracts and session proposals. If the material has already been presented or published elsewhere we will ask that you include this in the disclosure step.

Submission Requirements

Abstract Submission

• Contact and affiliation information for yourself and all co-authors (name, affiliation and e-mail)
• Title of abstract
• An abstract of between 300-500 words
• A minimum of 3 Key Terms
• Disclosure statement outlining conflicts of interest and/or funding sources (if you have nothing to declare, just write NONE)
• Clearly indicate in the SUBJECT of the submission email that you are submitting an abstract

Individual abstracts may be up to 500 words in length on any topic in health economics. Individual abstracts will be subject to blinded review by three separate reviewers. Please ensure that you do not include any author details within the abstract text.

You may submit individual abstracts using our online form or submissions@healtheconomics.org.

Template:

Abstract Submission Template

Example:

Abstract Submission Example

Organized Session Proposals

Organized Session Requirements

Session Proposal (Abstract-driven)

• Contact and affiliation information for yourself and all presenters/co-authors (name, affiliation and e-mail)
• Title of session
• A description of the session of between 300-500 words
• Include title and abstracts (300-500 words each) per presentation
• Disclosure statement outlining conflicts of interest and/or funding sources (if you have nothing to declare, just write NONE)
• Clearly indicate in the SUBJECT of the submission email that you are submitting a session proposal

Template:

Session Proposal (Abstracts) Template

Example:

Session Proposal (Abstracts) Example

Submitted organized session proposals are peer-reviewed by three separate reviewers as a complete package. Prior professional activities of session participants are criteria for acceptance and thus this review is not blinded. Individual abstracts from proposals which are not accepted in the organized session intake will be entered in a repêchage peer-review that is blinded.

Session Proposal (Panel)

• Contact and affiliation information for yourself and all panelists/co-authors (name, affiliation and e-mail)
• Title of session
• A description of the session of between 300-500 words
• Include bio for each panelist
• Disclosure statement outlining conflicts of interest and/or funding sources (if you have nothing to declare, just write NONE)
• Clearly indicate in the SUBJECT of the submission email that you are submitting a panel proposal

Template:

Session Proposal (Panel) Template

Example:

Session Proposal (Panel) Example

Submitted organized session proposals are peer-reviewed by three separate reviewers as a complete package. Prior professional activities of session participants are criteria for acceptance and thus this review is not blinded.