17th ANNUAL HEALTH ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

产品说明：（申请人提供）南卡罗来纳州医科大学卫生经济和政策研究中心（CHEPS）寻求资金，以继续和改善非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议（AHEC）。在一个成功的15年经验的基础上，以独特的小型会议形式进行密集和严格的卫生经济学研究论文的开发，会议组织者和与会者将专注于开发和传播有关“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。在此背景下，会议的目的是：（1）通过探索可以直接应用于现实世界健康环境的理论问题，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的高级经济学家放在一个为期三天的密集小组中，培养下一代卫生经济学者。会议活动还将产生（1）研究议程驱动的贡献，批评，并提出的论文的讨论，（2）这样的结果和相关的专业知识的潜在用户的列表，和（3）务实和创新的战略，AHRQ，会议组织者，参与卫生经济学家，和潜在的合作伙伴可能会使用积极传播讨论的研究结果超出会议。 今年的会议将于3月24日至26日在位于南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的南卡罗来纳州医科大学校园内的新的、最先进的卫生学院大楼举行。

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.