24th - 26th Annual Health Economics Conferences

第24 - 26届卫生经济学年会 摘要： 卫生政策和管理系的卫生经济学项目 波士顿大学公共卫生学院寻求资金支持继续 非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议（AHEC）2013年（在 宾夕法尼亚大学），2014年（莱斯大学）和2015年（宾夕法尼亚大学） 格鲁吉亚）。AHEC会议采用小型会议形式进行严格的陈述 和讨论卫生经济学研究，特别注意其应用， 政策在这方面，这些会议的目的是：（1）推进政策 卫生经济学的适用性，通过探索具有高潜力的理论问题， 应用于现实世界的健康环境;（2）提高政策相关性的经验 卫生经济学，通过促进研究，强调研究的重要电流 政策问题，采用严格的方法;（3）发展下一代健康 通过将有前途的初级经济学家与知名的高级经济学家 经济学家在一个密集的1.5天，小组设置。在过去的23年里，AHEC 由大多数提供高级学位课程的主要大学主办， 在卫生经济学方面有主要的资助研究项目。每个人的独特性 会议的重点与每所大学的声望相结合，确保了异常 高质量的论文和与会者之间的认真互动。对于这三 会议将在过去成功的基础上再接再厉，（1）保留核心结构， AHEC的传统，广泛讨论前沿，政策相关的研究， 卫生经济学和（2）应对当前不断变化的卫生保健改革环境 通过包括会议，重点放在两个关键问题的成本，生产力，组织， 和卫生保健的市场力量，是目前的重要公共政策和AHRQ。

Title: 24th-26th Annual Health Economics Conferences Abstract: 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 2013 (at the University of Pennsylvania), 2014 (at Rice University) and 2015 (at the University of Georgia). 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 23 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.