2012 Fourth Biennial AHSEcon Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：明尼苏达大学卡尔森管理学院医疗行业领导研究所寻求资助，以帮助支持美国卫生经济学家协会（ASHEcon）的第四届两年一次的会议。ASHEcon是一个致力于促进美国健康经济学研究的专业组织。卫生经济学已经成为经济学中一个独特而成功的领域，为许多具有实践和政策意义的问题带来了理论见解，并且大量研究人员正在解决卫生保健服务中卫生行为的政策相关问题。这包括经济系、公共卫生学院、公共政策学院和商学院的学者，以及政府、行业和非营利组织学术界以外的研究人员。从2006年在威斯康辛大学举办的第一次会议开始，ASHEcon两年一次的会议迅速成为美国首屈一指的卫生经济学会议，为展示卫生经济学研究的新兴思想、实证结果和方法进步提供了一个论坛，并促进了下一代卫生经济学学者的发展。第四届两年一次的ASHEcon会议将于2012年6月10日至13日在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市的明尼苏达大学举行，会前活动将于6月9日在同一地点举行。会议将由明尼苏达大学医疗行业领导研究所主办。作为本次会议的主办机构，明尼苏达大学要求AHRQ对会议提供部分支持。会议费用的其余部分将由其他来源提供，包括会议注册费、赞助费和其他赠款。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Medical Industry Leadership Institute in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota seeks funding to help support the fourth biennial conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon). ASHEcon is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research in the United States. Health economics has emerged as a distinct and successful field in economics, bringing theoretical insights to many issues of practical and policy significance and a large community of researchers are tackling policy-relevant issues in health behavior in health care delivery. This includes scholars in economics departments, schools of public health, public policy departments, and business schools, as well as researchers outside academia in government, industry and nonprofit organizations. Beginning with its first conference at the University of Wisconsin in 2006, ASHEcon's biennial conference has quickly become established as the premier health economics conference in the U.S., providing 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. The fourth biennial ASHEcon conference will be held June 10-13, 2012, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota with pre-conference activities at the same location on June 9. The conference will be hosted by the University of Minnesota's Medical Industry Leadership Institute. As the institution hosting this conference, University of Minnesota is requesting partial support for the conference from AHRQ. The remainder of the conference costs will be funded from other sources, including conference registration fees, sponsorships, and other grants. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The general purpose of the fourth ASHEcon biennial conference is to provide an opportunity for a large community of health economists form academia, government and industry to present research, exchange ideas, gain new skills and learn about current policy issues in the field. Anticipated outcomes include improved research through the exchange of new research findings, dissemination of cutting-edge methods and ideas, better health policies and the development of the next generation of health economics researchers. The conference provides significant time for networking and fostering collaboration among health economists. Evaluations of past ASHEcon conferences indicate high marks on all of these dimensions.