American Society of Health Economists

南加州大学 2014第五届ASHEcon双年展 摘要 南方大学伦纳德·D·谢弗卫生政策和经济中心 加利福尼亚州寻求部分资金，以帮助支持美国癌症学会第五届两年一度的会议 健康经济学家(ASHEcon)将于2014年6月22日至25日在美国南加州大学举行 洛杉矶。ASHEcon是一家致力于促进卓越健康的专业组织 美国的经济学研究。卫生经济学已经成为一种独特而成功的 经济学领域，为许多实践和政策问题带来理论和实证见解 改善保健和保健的重要意义。参加会议的学者包括 经济系、公共卫生学院、公共政策系和商学院，如 以及政府、行业和非营利组织学术界以外的研究人员。起头 ASHEcon的第一次会议于2006年在威斯康星大学举行，两年一次的会议已经 迅速成为美国首屈一指的卫生经济学会议，提供了一个论坛 介绍卫生经济学中的新兴思想、实证结果和方法进展 研究，促进下一代卫生经济学学者的发展。 大会一直包括三到四次关于药物滥用经济学的会议， 影响当前和未来健康和福祉的重要行为。这是一个研究领域 几位ASHEcon成员和与会者积极参与了这次会议。我们正在寻求资金 组织以我们认为及时和特别相关的四个关键主题为中心的会议 与本次会议的与会者分享，以促进该领域的进一步研究： 1.影响处方药滥用和危害的供需因素 2.表观遗传学与环境对成瘾行为的影响 3.保健改革及其对药物滥用治疗的影响(可获得性、可获得性和 成本) 4.药物滥用经济学和影响它的公共政策 我们计划制作一份研究简报，总结上述NIDA的会议记录 赞助会议。研究简报将发布在ASHEcon会议的网站上。我们还将 将研究摘要发送到ASHEcon榜单服务器、南加州大学谢弗中心榜单服务器和兰德榜单服务器。 这些服务加在一起，将接触到包括学术界和政府在内的广泛受众。

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2014 Fifth Biennial ASHEcon Conference ABSTRACT The Leonard D. Schaeffer Center of Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California seeks partial funding to help support the fifth biennial conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) to be held on June 22-25, 2014, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. 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 and empirical insights to many issues of practical and policy significance for improving health and health care. Participants at the conference include 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 conference has consistently included three to four sessions on the economics of substance abuse, an important behavior influencing current and future health and wellbeing. This is an area of research for which several ASHEcon members and attendees have been actively engaged. We are seeking funding for organizing sessions centered on four key themes that we believe are timely and particularly relevant to share with attendees at this conference to promote further research in the area: 1. Supply and Demand Factors Influencing Prescription Drug Misuse and Harms 2. The Role of Epigenetics versus Environment on Addictive Behaviors 3. Health Care Reform and its Impact on Substance Abuse Treatment (Availability, Access and Cost) 4. Economics of Substance Abuse and Public Policies Influencing It We plan to produce a research brief that will summarize the proceedings from the above NIDA sponsored session. The research brief will be posted on the ASHEcon conference website. We will also send the research brief to ASHEcon list serve, USC Schaeffer Center list serve and RAND list serve. These list serves combined will reach a wide audience including academia and government.