Eighth - Tenth Annual Conferences of the American Society of Health Economists

摘要 第八届、第九届和第十届美国卫生经济学家学会（ASHEcon）年会的目的是： 为卫生经济学家、卫生服务研究人员和卫生政策的大型社区提供机会 研究人员收集和提出研究，交流思想，获得新的技能，并了解当前的政策问题， 领域虽然我们认为这些会议将包含涉及所有四类会议优先事项的方面， 由AHRQ强调，我们主要是一个研究开发会议。 会议的目标如下： 1)为卫生经济学和卫生政策界的成员提供学术，政府，合同研究 组织和行业有机会展示和讨论代表新的，严格的， 在密集的大型会议设置卫生经济学的重要领域的创新研究。中央 会议的组成部分是传播与政策有关的前沿研究。许多研究 将在ASHEcon年会上提交的论文将集中在健康和医疗保健差距，以及 AHRQ优先人群。 2)促进在政策研究中制定和实施严格的方法 重要的实证卫生经济学和政策研究。 3)提供讲习班，以提高卫生经济学家和相关研究人员的经验技能和能力， 帮助学生发展技能，促进下一代健康的职业发展。 经济学者通过职业发展活动和各种职业奖项。 4)为卫生经济学家和卫生政策界提供相互接触的机会， 网络，以创建，发展和促进未来的研究合作的连接。 预期的成果包括通过交流新的研究成果、传播切割技术、 前沿方法和交叉研究思路，更好的卫生政策，以及下一代 卫生经济学和卫生政策研究人员。会议为建立网络和促进 研究人员之间的合作。对过去ASHEcon会议的评估表明，所有这些都得到了很高的评价。 尺寸. 围绕“公共政策和卫生经济学的十字路口”这一总主题， 会议的拨款符合PA-13-017中所述的AHRQ的使命，即提供大笔会议赠款“以改善 为所有美国人提供医疗保健的质量、安全、效率和有效性”以及AHRQ支持会议的目标 促进研究结果的传播、研究设计和方法以及研究培训， 基础设施和职业发展。

Abstract The purpose of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Annual American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Conference is to provide an opportunity for a large community of health economists, health services researchers, and health policy researchers to gather and present research, exchange ideas, gain new skills, and learn about current policy issues in the field. While we believe these conferences will contain aspects touching on all four types of conference priorities highlighted by AHRQ, ours is primarily a research development conference. The conference objectives are as follows: 1) To offer members of the health economics and health policy community in academics, government, contract research organizations, and industry an opportunity to present and discuss high quality studies representing new, rigorous, innovative research in important areas of health economics in an intensive large conference setting. The central component of the conference is the dissemination of cutting edge, policy relevant research. Many of the research papers that will be presented at ASHEcon annual conference will focus on health and health care disparities, as well as AHRQ priority populations. 2) To foster the development and implementation of methodologically rigorous approaches in the study of policy significant empirical health economics and policy research. 3) To provide workshops to enhance the empirical skills and capabilities of health economists and related researchers as well as to aide students in skill-development, and to facilitate the career development of the next generation of health economic scholars through career development activities and awards across the career spectrum. 4) To provide opportunities for health economists and the health policy community to engage with one another and network to create, develop and foster connections for future research collaborations. Anticipated outcomes include improved research through the exchange of new study findings, dissemination of cutting- edge methods and crosscutting research ideas, better health policies, and the development of the next generation of health economics and health policy researchers. The conference provides significant time for networking and fostering collaboration among researchers. Evaluations of past ASHEcon conferences indicate high marks on all of these dimensions. Organized around the general theme of “The Crossroads of Public Policy and Health Economics,” the aims of the conference are consistent with the mission of AHRQ stated in PA-13-017 for large conference grants “to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans” and AHRQ’s goal of supporting conferences contributing to the dissemination of research findings, to research design and methodology, and to research training, infrastructure, and career development.