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和管理系的卫生经济学项目寻求资金，以支持将于2009年10月23-24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。AHEC会议采用小型会议形式，对卫生经济学研究进行严格的陈述和讨论，并特别关注其在政策上的应用。在这种背景下，本次会议的目标是：(1)通过探索具有高潜力应用于现实世界卫生环境的理论问题，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；以及(3)通过将有前途的初级经济学家与知名高级经济学家安排在为期1.5天的密集小组会议上，培养下一代卫生经济学学者。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质，加上每个大学的声望，确保了会议参与者之间非常高质量的论文和认真的互动。今年的会议将在过去成功的基础上，通过(1)保留AHEC的核心结构和传统，广泛讨论与卫生经济学相关的前沿政策研究，(2)通过包括关注当前对公共政策和AHRQ具有重要意义的卫生保健的成本、生产力、组织和市场力量中的两个关键问题的会议，解决当前不断变化的医疗改革环境：1)价值、质量和成本的经济学，以及2)市场、集中度和组织的经济学。伊利诺伊大学法学教授兼爱泼斯坦健康法律和政策项目主任David Hyman将发表主题演讲，从用户的角度出发，转换和使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，曾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.