19th Annual Health Economics Conference

描述(申请人提供)：标题：第19届年度卫生经济学会议摘要。芝加哥大学卫生与社会科学中心(CHESS)寻求资金，以支持2008年3月20-21日在芝加哥大学Gleacher会议中心举行的非常成功的年度卫生经济学会议(AHEC)的继续举行。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两天的密集小组会议上，培养下一代卫生经济学学者。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，广泛讨论卫生经济学中的前沿、与政策相关的研究，以及(2)包括两个会议，重点讨论当前对公共政策和AHRQ具有重要意义的药物经济学中的两个关键问题：1)比较有效性研究的经济学，包括药物安全和监管，以及2)早期分析联邦医疗保险D部分福利的影响。此外，诺贝尔奖得主詹姆斯·赫克曼将就儿童早期接触及其对健康的影响发表主旨演讲。一年一度的卫生经济学会议汇集了卫生经济学领域的领导人，讨论并介绍对美国公共卫生政策有直接影响的问题。第19届年度卫生经济学会议希望在前几届年度卫生经济学会议建立的丰富传统的基础上再接再厉。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): Title: 19th Annual Health Economics Conference Abstract. The Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) at The University of Chicago seeks funding to support continuation of the highly successful Annual Health Economics Conference (AHEC) to be held March 20-21, 2008 at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Conference Center. 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 two-day, small group setting. 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) including two sessions that focus on two critical issues in pharmaceutical economics that are of current importance for public policy and AHRQ: 1) the economics of comparative effectiveness research, including drug safety and regulation, and 2) early analysis of the effects of the Medicare Part D Benefit. In addition, Nobel Laureate James Heckman will deliver a keynote address on early childhood exposures and their impact on health. 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 19th annual Health Economics conference hopes to build upon the rich tradition established by the preceding Annual Health Economics Conferences.