Aging Research at the 2010 through 2014 ASHEcon Biennial Conferences

描述（由申请人提供）：美国卫生经济学家协会（ASHEcon）是一个专业组织，致力于促进美国卫生经济学研究的卓越成就。ASHEcon会议的目标是提供一个论坛，展示卫生经济学研究中的新兴思想、实证结果和方法论进步，并促进下一代卫生经济学学者的发展。更具体地说，目标是促进卫生经济学家的大社区提出和讨论高质量的论文代表新的和创新的研究在卫生经济学的重要领域。最终成果包括：更好地研究关键的健康问题，包括与老龄化有关的问题;产生新的研究思路;为学生、初级研究人员、妇女和少数民族创造机会;传播尖端思想;以及为私人和公共政策建立更好的知识基础。 全体发言人，科学会议，论文和海报将通过几个主题解决老龄化的实质性领域。这些包括：护理质量;医疗保险和医疗保健改革;比较有效性;医疗保险（例如，医生和医院支付改革，医疗保险优势和D部分）;治疗和结果的种族/种族和性别差异;退休和健康; VA服务;整个生命周期的健康和健康行为;长期护理;老年人预防服务;以及技术的传播。会前会议将探讨计量经济学和其他方法的新发展以及政府数据可用性的发展等主题。 从2006年在威斯康星州大学的会议开始，然后是2008年的杜克会议，ASHEcon的两年一度的会议很快就成为美国首屈一指的卫生经济学会议。NIA通过会议赠款，在帮助2008年会议包括与老龄化直接相关的高质量会议和一位就医疗保健改革、老龄化和政策相关问题发言的全体发言人（马克·麦克莱伦）方面发挥了重要作用。为今后三次会议和其间的规划年提供资金将建立在我们良好的成就记录基础上。在ASHEcon会议上提出的研究将有助于推进NIA的，更普遍地说，NIH的研究议程。许多卫生经济学家谁将出席是NIA的受赠者，更广泛地说，NIH;其他人可能会成为在听了演讲和讨论后，对这些主题感兴趣。此外，NIA，NIH和ASHEcon有许多共同的目标，如培训和发展学生和初级教师的职业生涯，包括妇女和少数民族。 第三届两年一度的ASHEcon会议将于2010年6月20日至23日在纽约州伊萨卡的康奈尔大学举行。第四次会议将于2012年在明尼苏达大学举行，第五次会议将于2014年在一所大学举行，待定。预计第三次会议将有700名与会者。2006年的会议有500名与会者，2008年的会议有650名与会者。 公共卫生相关性：美国卫生经济学家协会（ASHEcon）两年一次的会议的目的是为卫生经济学研究的新兴思想和经验成果提供一个论坛。拟议的三个会议将涉及的主题包括：护理质量;医疗保险和医疗保健改革;比较有效性;医疗保险（例如，医生和医院支付改革，医疗保险优势和D部分）;治疗和结果中的种族/种族和性别差异;退休和健康; VA服务;各年龄段的健康和健康行为;长期护理，老年人预防服务;以及技术传播等。接下来的三个两年一次的ASHEcon会议将于2010年6月在康奈尔大学举行，2012年夏季在明尼苏达大学举行，2014年夏季在一所大学举行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research in the U.S. The objective of the ASHEcon conferences is to provide a forum for presenting emerging ideas, empirical results and methodological advances in health economics research and for facilitating the development of the next generation of health economics scholars. More specifically, the goal is to facilitate a large community of health economists to present and discuss high quality papers representing new and innovative research in important areas of health economics. The ultimate outcomes include better research on critical health topics, including aging related topics; generation of new research ideas; development of opportunities for students, junior researchers, women and minorities; dissemination of cutting-edge ideas; and a better knowledge base for private and public policies. Plenary speakers, scientific sessions, papers, and posters will address the substantive area of aging through several topics. These include: quality of care; health insurance and health care reform; comparative effectiveness; Medicare (e.g., physician and hospital payment reforms, Medicare Advantage, and Part Ds); ethnic/racial and gender disparities in treatments and outcomes; retirement and health; VA services; health and health behaviors across the life-span; long-term care; preventive services for elderly; and diffusion of technology. Pre-conference sessions will explore topics such as new developments in econometric and other methods, and developments in government data availability. Beginning with the conference at University of Wisconsin in 2006 and then the Duke conference in 2008, ASHEcon's biennial conference has quickly become established as the premier health economics conference in the United States. NIA, through a conference grant, was instrumental in helping the 2008 conference include high quality sessions directly related to aging and a plenary speaker (Mark McClellan) who spoke on health care reform, aging, and policy related issues. Funding for the next three conferences and the intervening planning years will build on our strong record of accomplishment. Research presented at the ASHEcon conferences will help advance NIA's, and more generally, NIH's research agenda. Many of the health economists who will attend are grantees of NIA and, more broadly, NIH; others may become interested in these topics after hearing presentations and discussions. Further, NIA, NIH, and ASHEcon share many goals such as training and developing the careers of students and junior faculty including women and minorities. The third biennial ASHEcon conference will be held June 20-23, 2010, at Cornell University in Ithaca NY. The fourth conference will be at the University of Minnesota in 2012 and the fifth is to be held in 2014 at a university TBD. We anticipate about 700 participants at the third conference. The 2006 conference had 500 attendees and the 2008 conference had 650 attendees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The objective of the biennial conferences of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) is to provide a forum for emerging ideas and empirical results of health economics research. Topics to be covered in the three proposed conferences include: quality of care; health insurance and health care reform; comparative effectiveness; Medicare (e.g., physician and hospital payment reforms, Medicare Advantage, and Part Ds); ethnic/racial and gender disparities in treatments and outcomes; retirement and health; VA services; health and health behaviors across the ages; long-term care, preventive services for elderly; and diffusion of technology, among others. The next three biennial ASHEcon conferences will be held June 2010 at Cornell University, summer 2012 at University of Minnesota, and summer 2014 at a university TBD.