AHEC Conference

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正在寻求资金，以支持将于 2009 年 10 月 23 日至 24 日在波士顿大学公共卫生学院举行的非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议 (AHEC) 的继续举办。美国阔叶木外销委员会会议采用小型会议形式，对卫生经济学研究进行严格的介绍和讨论，特别关注其在政策中的应用。在此背景下，本次会议的目的是：（1）通过探索具有较高应用潜力的理论问题来提高卫生经济学的政策适用性； (2) 通过促进强调使用严格方法研究当前重要政策问题的研究，提高实证卫生经济学的政策相关性； (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安排在为期 1.5 天的小组集中学习中，培养下一代健康经济学学者。在过去的 19 年里，AHEC 一直由大多数提供高级学位课程并拥有主要资助的卫生经济学研究项目的主要大学主办。每个会议焦点的独特性与每所大学的声望相结合，确保了高质量的论文和会议参与者之间的认真互动。今年的会议将在过去成功的基础上，通过以下方式：（1）保留美国阔叶木外销委员会的核心结构和传统，广泛讨论卫生经济学领域前沿的、与政策相关的研究；（2）解决当前不断变化的卫生保健改革环境，包括重点关注卫生保健成本、生产力、组织和市场力量方面的两个关键问题的会议，这些问题对公共政策和 AHRQ 当前非常重要：1）价值、质量和成本的经济学，2）市场、集中度和成本的经济学。组织。伊利诺伊大学法学教授兼爱泼斯坦卫生法与政策项目主任戴维·海曼 (David Hyman) 将从用户的角度发表主题演讲，阐述如何转化和利用卫生经济学研究来影响卫生政策，特别是关注市场、集中度和组织。海曼博士拥有医学博士和法学博士学位，并担任联邦贸易委员会特别顾问三年。

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 Conference (AHEC) to be held October 23-24, 2009 at the Boston University School of Public Health. 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 this conference 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 19 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. This year 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 cost, and 2) the economics of markets, concentration, and organization. David Hyman, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois and Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, will deliver a keynote address with a user perspective on translating and using health economics research to impact health policy, especially focusing on markets, concentration, and organization. Dr. Hyman has both an M.D. and J.D. and was Special Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission for three years.