Aging Research at the 2010 through 2014 ASHEcon Biennial Conferences

描述(申请人提供)：美国健康经济学家协会(ASHEcon)是一个致力于促进美国健康经济学研究的卓越的专业组织。ASHEcon会议的目标是提供一个论坛，展示健康经济学研究中的新兴想法、实证结果和方法进步，并促进下一代健康经济学学者的发展。更具体地说，目标是促进一个庞大的健康经济学家社区提出和讨论高质量的论文，代表卫生经济学重要领域的新的和创新的研究。最终成果包括更好地研究关键的健康问题，包括与老龄化有关的主题；产生新的研究想法；为学生、初级研究人员、妇女和少数群体发展机会；传播尖端思想；以及更好的私营和公共政策知识库。全体演讲者、科学会议、论文和海报将通过几个主题讨论老龄化的实质性领域。这些问题包括：医疗质量；医疗保险和医疗改革；比较有效性；医疗保险(例如，医生和医院支付改革、医疗保险优势和D部分)；治疗和结果方面的族裔/种族和性别差异；退休和健康；退伍军人服务；整个生命周期的健康和健康行为；长期护理；老年人预防服务；以及技术传播。会议前的会议将探讨计量经济学和其他方法的新发展，以及政府数据可获得性的发展。从2006年威斯康星大学的会议开始，再到2008年的杜克会议，ASHEcon的两年一次的会议迅速成为美国首要的卫生经济学会议。NIA通过一笔会议赠款，帮助2008年的会议包括与老龄化直接相关的高质量会议，以及一位全体演讲者(Mark McClellan)，他就医疗改革、老龄化和政策相关问题发表了讲话。为今后三次会议和其间的规划年提供资金，将建立在我们取得良好成绩的基础上。在ASHEcon会议上提出的研究将有助于推进NIA的研究议程，更广泛地说，NIH的研究议程。许多将出席的健康经济学家都是NIA和更广泛地说是NIH的受赠者；其他人在听取了演讲和讨论后可能会对这些主题感兴趣。此外，NIA、NIH和ASHEcon都有许多共同的目标，如培训和发展学生和初级教师的职业生涯，包括女性和少数族裔。第三届ASHEcon大会将于2010年6月20日至23日在纽约州伊萨卡市的康奈尔大学举行。第四次会议将于2012年在明尼苏达大学举行，第五次会议将于2014年在一所大学举行，待定。我们预计第三次会议的与会者约为700人。2006年的会议有500人参加，2008年的会议有650人参加。 公共卫生相关性：美国卫生经济学家协会(ASHEcon)两年一次的会议的目标是为卫生经济学研究的新想法和实证结果提供一个论坛。三个拟议会议将涵盖的主题包括：医疗质量；医疗保险和医疗改革；比较有效性；医疗保险(例如，医生和医院支付改革、医疗保险优势和D部分)；治疗和结果方面的种族/种族和性别差异；退休和健康；退伍军人服务；不同年龄的健康和健康行为；长期护理、老年人预防服务；以及技术传播等。接下来的三次两年一度的ASHEcon会议将于2010年6月在康奈尔大学举行，2012年夏季在明尼苏达大学举行，2014年夏季在待定大学举行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research in the U.S. The objective of the ASHEcon conferences is to provide 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. More specifically, the goal is to facilitate a large community of health economists to present and discuss high quality papers representing new and innovative research in important areas of health economics. The ultimate outcomes include better research on critical health topics, including aging related topics; generation of new research ideas; development of opportunities for students, junior researchers, women and minorities; dissemination of cutting-edge ideas; and a better knowledge base for private and public policies. Plenary speakers, scientific sessions, papers, and posters will address the substantive area of aging through several topics. These include: quality of care; health insurance and health care reform; comparative effectiveness; Medicare (e.g., physician and hospital payment reforms, Medicare Advantage, and Part Ds); ethnic/racial and gender disparities in treatments and outcomes; retirement and health; VA services; health and health behaviors across the life-span; long-term care; preventive services for elderly; and diffusion of technology. Pre-conference sessions will explore topics such as new developments in econometric and other methods, and developments in government data availability. Beginning with the conference at University of Wisconsin in 2006 and then the Duke conference in 2008, ASHEcon's biennial conference has quickly become established as the premier health economics conference in the United States. NIA, through a conference grant, was instrumental in helping the 2008 conference include high quality sessions directly related to aging and a plenary speaker (Mark McClellan) who spoke on health care reform, aging, and policy related issues. Funding for the next three conferences and the intervening planning years will build on our strong record of accomplishment. Research presented at the ASHEcon conferences will help advance NIA's, and more generally, NIH's research agenda. Many of the health economists who will attend are grantees of NIA and, more broadly, NIH; others may become interested in these topics after hearing presentations and discussions. Further, NIA, NIH, and ASHEcon share many goals such as training and developing the careers of students and junior faculty including women and minorities. The third biennial ASHEcon conference will be held June 20-23, 2010, at Cornell University in Ithaca NY. The fourth conference will be at the University of Minnesota in 2012 and the fifth is to be held in 2014 at a university TBD. We anticipate about 700 participants at the third conference. The 2006 conference had 500 attendees and the 2008 conference had 650 attendees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The objective of the biennial conferences of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) is to provide a forum for emerging ideas and empirical results of health economics research. Topics to be covered in the three proposed conferences include: quality of care; health insurance and health care reform; comparative effectiveness; Medicare (e.g., physician and hospital payment reforms, Medicare Advantage, and Part Ds); ethnic/racial and gender disparities in treatments and outcomes; retirement and health; VA services; health and health behaviors across the ages; long-term care, preventive services for elderly; and diffusion of technology, among others. The next three biennial ASHEcon conferences will be held June 2010 at Cornell University, summer 2012 at University of Minnesota, and summer 2014 at a university TBD.