Eighth - Tenth Annual Conferences of the American Society of Health Economists

摘要 第八届、第九届和第十届美国健康经济学家协会年会的目的是 为健康经济学家、健康服务研究人员和健康政策的大型社区提供机会 研究人员收集和展示研究，交流想法，获得新技能，并在 菲尔德。虽然我们认为这些会议将包含涉及所有四种类型的会议优先事项的方面 AHRQ强调，我们主要是一个研究发展会议。 会议目标如下： 1)为卫生经济学和卫生政策社区的成员提供学术、政府、合同研究 组织和行业有机会展示和讨论代表新的、严谨的、 在密集的大型会议环境中对卫生经济学重要领域的创新研究。中环 会议的组成部分是传播前沿、政策的相关研究。许多研究 将在ASHEcon年会上发表的论文将集中讨论卫生和卫生保健方面的差距，以及 AHRQ优先群体。 2)促进制定和实施在政策研究中采用严格的方法 重要的实证卫生经济学和政策研究。 3)举办讲习班，加强卫生经济学家和相关研究人员的经验技能和能力，如 以及帮助学生发展技能，并促进下一代健康人的职业发展 经济学者通过职业发展活动和职业范围内的奖励。 4)为卫生经济学家和卫生政策界提供相互接触和 为未来的研究合作建立、发展和培育联系的网络。 预期成果包括通过交流新的研究结果改进研究，传播切割-- EDGE方法和交叉研究思想，更好的卫生政策，以及开发下一代 卫生经济学和卫生政策研究人员。会议为建立网络和培养人才提供了重要的时间 研究人员之间的合作。对历届ASHEcon会议的评价显示，所有这些会议都得到了很高的评价 尺寸。 围绕“公共政策和卫生经济学的十字路口”这一总主题组织的 与PA-13-017中所述的AHRQ的任务一致，以获得大笔会议赠款，以改善 为所有美国人提供医疗保健的质量、安全、效率和有效性“和AHRQ支持会议的目标 促进研究成果的传播、研究设计和方法以及研究培训， 基础设施和职业发展。

Abstract The purpose of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Annual American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Conference is to provide an opportunity for a large community of health economists, health services researchers, and health policy researchers to gather and present research, exchange ideas, gain new skills, and learn about current policy issues in the field. While we believe these conferences will contain aspects touching on all four types of conference priorities highlighted by AHRQ, ours is primarily a research development conference. The conference objectives are as follows: 1) To offer members of the health economics and health policy community in academics, government, contract research organizations, and industry an opportunity to present and discuss high quality studies representing new, rigorous, innovative research in important areas of health economics in an intensive large conference setting. The central component of the conference is the dissemination of cutting edge, policy relevant research. Many of the research papers that will be presented at ASHEcon annual conference will focus on health and health care disparities, as well as AHRQ priority populations. 2) To foster the development and implementation of methodologically rigorous approaches in the study of policy significant empirical health economics and policy research. 3) To provide workshops to enhance the empirical skills and capabilities of health economists and related researchers as well as to aide students in skill-development, and to facilitate the career development of the next generation of health economic scholars through career development activities and awards across the career spectrum. 4) To provide opportunities for health economists and the health policy community to engage with one another and network to create, develop and foster connections for future research collaborations. Anticipated outcomes include improved research through the exchange of new study findings, dissemination of cutting- edge methods and crosscutting research ideas, better health policies, and the development of the next generation of health economics and health policy researchers. The conference provides significant time for networking and fostering collaboration among researchers. Evaluations of past ASHEcon conferences indicate high marks on all of these dimensions. Organized around the general theme of “The Crossroads of Public Policy and Health Economics,” the aims of the conference are consistent with the mission of AHRQ stated in PA-13-017 for large conference grants “to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans” and AHRQ’s goal of supporting conferences contributing to the dissemination of research findings, to research design and methodology, and to research training, infrastructure, and career development.