June 30, 2008
Closing date: 30 June 2008
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Care Management Science (HCMS) and the Guest Editor are pleased to invite authors to submit suitable papers for possible publication. The special issue devoted to “Management Science and Economics of Medical Devices for Health Care & Policy” is planned to contain cutting edge research papers on the broad technologies comprising biomedical devices.
Specifically, sustainable rise in real incomes, rapid geriatric age population growth, favorable reimbursements, computer aided/innovative instrumentation, complementary technological progress, and freer global markets, are some of the major forces/trends positioning medical device (spinal implants, biologics, related treatment delivery devices and processes) technologies for a strong and potentially sustainable global growth. The US market in medical device alone is expected to reach $89 billion at the start of 2008 (knowledge@wharton.upenn.edu). Competitor Insights for Spinal Implants 2005 (source: Millennium Research Group) also projects the spinal implant sub-market alone to grow at the annual compounded rate of 12%, with the largest rise in the US (European and Asian markets are each projected to grow 6 %, from 2003 to 2009). The US in 2004 singularly accounted for roughly 82% of the world-wide sales in the spinal implants industry, and Asia Pacific and Europe shared the balance equally. The medical device (technology) market is essentially global and its constituent leading firms include Smith & Richards, Medtronic, DePuy (Johnson & Johnson), Synthes, Strkyer, and Zimmer.
Consequently, this special issue of HCMS welcomes a diverse set of paper submissions focusing on various aspects of resource allocation issues, firm- or industry- specific, using management science/ operations research optimization techniques/algorithms and/or theory-consistent econometric (or economic) models to inform competitive strategies or public policies for the health sector. Consistent with the established tradition of the journal HCMS, a Springer® publication, papers should contain:
- implications for health care consumers, medical device firms or industry, or public policy including health care, or
- innovative strategic positioning ideas for sustainable competitive advantage either in the framework of resource-based theory of the firm or Rumelt’s time-tested isolating mechanisms (R. Rumelt, “Towards a Strategic Theory of the Firm,” in Lamb, R. (ed.), Competitive Strategic Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1984, pp. 556-70).
Please submit potential contributions electronically through http://hcms.edmgr.com/ to meet the 24:00 h. deadline on June 30, 2008. Authors should state clearly in an accompanying cover letter that the paper is for consideration in the special issue on “Management Science and Economics of Medical Devices for Health Care & Policy.”
The targeted publication date is Dec. 2008 (vol. 11, #4) or Mar. 2009 (vol. 12, #1). HCMS is a peer-refereed journal with a 2004–06 Impact Factor of 2.5 and submissions will go through the standard double-blind refereeing process. HCMS is indexed/abstracted in ABI Inform, EconLit, Journal of Economic Literature, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), and SCOPUS.
Inquiries on a potential submission should be sent to:
Albert A. Okunade,
First Tennessee Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Health Care Economics, Office 450BB
(The Fogelman College of Business & Economics),
The University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN 38152
(901) 678-2672
aokunade@memphis.edu
June 30, 2008: Health Care
July 15, 2008
Submission deadline: 15 July 2008
Background: The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) is issuing an international call for papers addressing the unintended consequences of tobacco control policies on low socioeconomic status women and girls. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recognizes the increasing rates of tobacco use among women and girls and highlights the need for gender-specific tobacco control strategies. In the United States and other industrialized countries, women living in poverty, lacking a post-high school education, and/or those working in manual labor, blue-collar and service positions have higher rates of tobacco use and lower rates of quitting compared to their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, an increasing number of women and girls in low and middle income countries are exposed to secondhand smoke and are beginning to use tobacco products.
Strategies to reduce smoking among low socioeconomic status women and girls in low, middle, and high income countries are needed to reduce the burden of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality among women. Tobacco control policies are intended to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among all populations, but recent data indicate that there may be unintended consequences among low socioeconomic status women and girls. Unintended consequences may be harmful or helpful to the lives and livelihoods of low socioeconomic status women and girls, and tobacco control policies are being promoted globally without a good understanding of their differential effects.
Paper Topics: TReND is issuing a call for papers on the Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Control Policies on Low Socioeconomic Status Women and Girls. Topics may include but are not limited to examining the effects of policies on:
- social acquisition of cigarettes
- smuggling and illegal trade and sales
- social networks and social support systems
- social norms
- culture
- process of and determinants of quitting success
- nutritional status
- other health behaviors or conditions such as obesity, alcohol and other substance use
- co-morbid conditions
- job circumstances and occupational choices
- violence against women and girls
- home life and personal and community livelihood
- economic decision-making. Original research papers, conceptual or theoretical papers, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews will be considered.
We encourage the submission of papers that include qualitative and/or quantitative analyses by gender or sex, social/occupational class, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and geographic location. We also welcome papers that address disabled, pregnant, immigrant, refugee, displaced, and incarcerated women and girls.
Instructions: Please submit a brief abstract for review by July 15, 2008 to Christen H. Osburn, M.B.A., Contractor, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., at osburnc@mail.nih.gov. The abstract should not exceed 300 words and should include the title, purpose, objectives, study design and methods. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified no later than July 21, 2008 and will be asked to submit a manuscript for peer review. Manuscript submissions are due September 2, 2008 to the guest editor, Roland S. Moore, Ph.D, at roland@prev.org. The internal review team will provide feedback to the authors prior to the journal’s standard peer review process. Final papers are due on November 1, 2008 to Roland S. Moore., Ph.D. For additional instructions and guidelines for paper formatting, please go to the journal website at: http://www.ajpm-online.net. If you have any questions regarding the special issue, please contact the guest editor, Roland S. Moore, Ph.D. at roland@prev.org.
Special Note: We are only accepting abstracts that clearly address the unintended consequences (these can be either harmful or helpful consequences) of tobacco control polices on the lives of low socioeconomic status women and/or girls (either within the United States or abroad).
July 15, 2008: Economics
July 31, 2008
Submission deadline: 31 July 2008
Guest Editors
- Winnie Yip, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
- Adam Wagstaff, PhD, The World Bank, USA
- William C. Hsiao, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Health Economics is announcing a special issue on China, to be published in June 2009 to coincide with the 7th World Congress of Health Economics to be held in Beijing, July 2009. We are seeking papers on the following themes:
- Evaluation of the performance of China’s health care system, with priority given to the impacts of China’s recent health care reform initiatives on ensuring access to care, improving health outcome, providing ?nancial risk protection, improving equities in health and health care, reducing inef?ciencies and containing cost in?ation. In addition, economic analysis of the forms of health care purchasing and their effectiveness in improving China’s health system performance is highly encouraged.
- Economic and political economy theories that explain China’s health system reform measures.
- Determinants of health and health care inequities in China. Descriptive papers will not be considered.
Manuscripts should follow the usual instructions for electronic submission of papers to Health Economics. Authors should indicate that they wish their manuscript to be reviewed for inclusion in the special issue. All papers will be peer reviewed.
Joint authorship between international and domestic scholars is highly encouraged. The deadline for submitting papers for this special issue is July 31, 2008. Although not required, those who intend to submit a paper are strongly recommended to send an ‘intent to submit’ to Dr Winnie Yip, specifying the title and authors of the paper, with a brief statement on the content of the paper.
Any questions about the special issue can be directed to:
Dr Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip
Department of Public Health
Oxford University
UK
E-mail: wyip@hsph.harvard.edu or winnie.yip@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
July 31, 2008: Health Economics
September 1, 2008
Location: Milan, Italy
Dates: 4-6 December 2008
Submission deadline: 1 September 2008
Venue: University of Milan - Bicocca
In recent years, health econometrics has been playing an important role in supporting health and social care policy decisions. This Workshop provides the opportunity to disseminate advances in the methods and applications of health econometrics.
Submission of papers: Papers for the Workshop will be selected on the basis of full drafts. Papers should be sent in electronic form to the address healthecon@le.ac.uk no later than 1st September 2008. Decisions will be made by 20th September 2008. Authors will have the opportunity to submit their papers for publication in a special issue of Economic Modelling.
There will be 5 keynote speakers:
- Badi Baltagi - Syracuse University
- William Greene - New York University
- Alberto Holly - University of Lausanne
- Andrew Jones - University of York
- John Mullahy - University of Wisconsin
For further information about the Workshop you can contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at fm83@le.ac.uk or visit http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/healtheconometrics/
September 1, 2008: Health Economics