21st-23rd Annual Health Economics Conferences

描述（由申请人提供）：波士顿大学公共卫生学院卫生政策与管理系的卫生经济学项目寻求资金支持，以支持2010年（里海大学）、2011年（西北大学）和2012年（待定）非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议（AHEC）的延续。AHEC会议采用小型会议形式，严格介绍和讨论卫生经济学研究，特别关注其在政策中的应用。在此背景下，这些会议的目的是：(1)通过探索具有高应用潜力的理论问题来推进卫生经济学的政策适用性；(2)加强实证卫生经济学的政策相关性研究，强调用严谨的方法研究当前重要的政策问题；(3)通过将有前途的初级经济学家与备受瞩目的高级经济学家进行为期1.5天的密集小组交流，培养下一代健康经济学学者。在过去的20年里，AHEC由大多数提供高级学位课程和在卫生经济学方面有主要资助研究项目的主要大学主办。每个会议重点的独特性质与每个大学的声望相结合，确保了会议参与者之间的高质量论文和认真的互动。在这三年中，会议将在过去成功的基础上：(1)保留AHEC的核心结构和传统，广泛讨论卫生经济学的前沿政策相关研究；(2)通过包括对当前公共政策和AHRQ重要的卫生保健成本、生产力、组织和市场力量两个关键问题的会议，解决当前不断变化的卫生保健改革环境。1)价值、质量和激励经济学（2010年），以及2)市场、集中和组织经济学（2011年）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Health Economics Program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health seeks funding to support continuation of the highly successful Annual Health Economics Conferences (AHEC) for 2010 (at Lehigh University), 2011 (at Northwestern University) and 2012 (To Be Determined). The AHEC conference uses a small conference format for rigorous presentation and discussion of health economics research, with special attention to its application to policy. In this context, the aims of these conferences are: (1) to advance the policy applicability of health economics by exploring theoretical issues with high potential for application to real-world health settings; (2) to improve the policy relevance of empirical health economics by fostering research that emphasizes the study of important current policy questions using rigorous methods; and (3) to develop the next generation of health economic scholars by placing promising junior economists with high-profile senior economists in an intensive 1.5-day, small group setting. Over the past 20 years, AHEC has been hosted by most of the major universities that offer advanced degree programs and have major funded research programs in health economics. The unique nature of each conference focus combined with the prestige of each university has ensured exceptionally high quality papers and serious interactions among conference participants. For these three years, the conference will build upon past success by (1) retaining the core structure and tradition of AHEC, with extensive discussion of leading-edge, policy-relevant research in health economics and (2) addressing the current changing health care reform environment by including sessions that focus on two critical issues in the cost, productivity, organization, and market forces of health care that are of current importance for public policy and AHRQ: 1) the economics of value, quality, and incentives (in 2010), and 2) the economics of markets, concentration, and organization (in 2011). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Annual Health Economics Conference brings together the leaders in the field of Health Economics to discuss and to present on issues that have a direct effect on public health policy in the US. The 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Annual Health Economics conferences hope to build upon the rich tradition established by the preceding twenty Annual Health Economics Conferences.