17th ANNUAL HEALTH ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

描述：(由申请人提供)南卡罗来纳医科大学卫生经济和政策研究中心(CHEPS)寻求资金，以继续并改进非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议(AHEC)。在15年成功经验的基础上，会议组织者和与会者将以独特的小型会议形式密集而严格地制定卫生经济学研究论文，会议组织者和与会者将专注于开发和传播关于“卫生保健成本、组织、质量和市场力量”的研究，这一重点显然与AHRQ的使命一致。在这种背景下，会议的目标是：(1)通过探索可直接应用于现实世界卫生环境的理论问题，提高卫生经济学的政策适用性；(2)通过促进强调使用最严格的方法研究当前重要问题的研究，提高实证卫生经济学的政策相关性；以及(3)通过有意将有前途的初级经济学家与知名高级经济学家安排在为期三天的密集小组会议上，培养下一代卫生经济学学者。会议活动还将产生(1)由提交的论文的贡献、评论和讨论驱动的研究议程，(2)此类发现和相关专业知识的潜在用户列表，以及(3)AHRQ、会议组织者、与会卫生经济学家和潜在合作伙伴可能在会议之外积极传播讨论的研究成果时可能使用的务实和创新策略。 今年的会议将于3月24日至26日在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿南卡罗来纳医科大学校园内新建的最先进的健康专业学院大楼举行。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by the Applicant) The Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the Medical University of South Carolina seeks funding to continue, and improve, the highly successful Annual Health Economics Conference (AHEC). Building on a successful 15-year experience with a unique small conference format for intense and rigorous development of research papers in health economics, the conference organizers and participants will focus on developing and disseminating research about "health care costs, organizations, quality and market forces," a focus clearly aligned with AHRQ's mission. In this context, the aims of the conference are: (1) to advance the policy applicability of health economics by exploring theoretical issues that can be directly applied to real-world health settings; (2) to improve the policy relevance of empirical health economics by fostering research that emphasizes study of important current questions using the most rigorous methods; and (3) to develop the next generation of health economic scholars by intentionally placing promising junior economists with high-profile senior economists in an intensive three-day, small group setting. Conference activities will also produce (1) research agenda driven by the contributions, critiques, and discussions of the papers presented, (2) a list of potential users of such findings and related expertise, and (3) pragmatic and innovative strategies that AHRQ, conference organizers, participating health economists, and potential partners might use in actively disseminating discussed research findings beyond the conference. This year the conference will be held March 24-26 in the new, state-of-the-art College of Health Professions building on the campus of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.