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October
72nd Health Economists' Study Group
Location: Norwich, England, UK
Dates: 9 - 11 January 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 October 2007
Venue: Dunston Hall, UEA, Norwich
Hosted by: The Health Economics Group, UEA Norwich
Call for Abstracts: This is an ordinary meeting with papers on any relevant topic. Preference will be given to work-in-progress, first time presenters and PhD students. The HESG meeting will have the standard format of one-hour sessions in which papers submitted in advance will be introduced and reviewed by a discussant other than the author.
Full details of the call for abstracts are available online
Please send a title and an abstract of up to 250 words of the proposed content by Friday, 26 October if you wish to have a paper considered. The following structure is preferred although a different structure would be acceptable if justified.
- Title, authors and contact details
- Aims
- Methods
- Data (if any)
- Results
- Conclusions
Please submit abstracts by e-mail, using the subject header “HESG abstract” and including the abstract in the BODY of the message to: hesg2008@uea.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 7 December 2007
Selection criteria: Papers on any health economics topic will be considered. Please note that there is a restriction on the number of slots available for papers, and there is no guarantee that your abstract will be accepted. In the case of over-subscription, the scientific committee will select papers on the following basis:
- Only abstracts submitted before the deadline will be considered
- Papers with little of no economics content will be rejected
- Work-in-progress papers and those at an early stage of development and encouraged. Reproduced reports and papers (especially those written for other audiences) and book chapters will be rejected.
- Authors, or sets of authors (but not institutions or units), may be restricted to one paper.
If all the above criteria are satisfied and the number of papers submitted still exceeds the number of slots available, papers may be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us: Please e-mail all enquiries to hesg2008@uea.ac.uk
Your message will be forwarded to the appropriate member of the local organising committee for a response. Members of the local organising committee are: Val Knights, Miranda Mugford, Angela Robinson, Lisa Rowe, Ian Shemilt and Ed Wilson.
Registration: You can download the registration form
The early registration deadline is Friday, 30 November 2007. Please note hotel accommodation cannot be guaranteed after this date and a late fee may apply. Your booking cannot be confirmed until payment has been received. Please see website for full terms and conditions.
Please send completed registration forms and cheques to:
Val Knights
Health Economics Group
School of Medicine, Health Policy & Practice
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
All further information about this meeting will be posted at: http://www.ioh.uea.ac.uk/hesg
October 26, 2007: Health Economics
October
The 2008 Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce: From Evidence and Research to Public and Health Care Industry Policy: WHO – World Bank - Kaiser Permanente - UC Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Conference Dates: April 4-5, 2008
Abstract Deadline: October 19, 2007
Jointly sponsored by:
- World Health Organization’s Department of Human Resources for Health
- World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Africa Region
- Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy
- University of California, Berkeley’s Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research
- University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
- Global Health Workforce Alliance
The conference will highlight recent research advances that address the lack of evidence in shaping health workforce public and health care industry policy, both within countries and across regions. Topics include how health workforce size, skills mix, and distribution affect health care delivery, as well as policy recommendations that work toward achieving adequate supplies of health workers. New and existing data sources that measure the health workforce’s capacity to meet a population’s health needs will be discussed, as well as techniques for modeling workforce supply- demand dynamics. The conference will also address ways to measure workforce imbalances and the implications of health workforce demographic change and migration on overall supply. Finally, it will discuss how features of the health care delivery system can affect health workforce demand and training, access to care, and quality.
Call for Abstracts
We invite researchers to submit an abstract related to the following themes, which may be from a country-specific, regional, or global perspective. Submissions from international collaborations are highly encouraged.
- The use of new and existing data sources and tools to measure and monitor the health workforce’s (including public health workers’) capacity to meet a population’s health care demand and needs
- The use of innovative measures and predictive models to analyze health workforce supply-demand dynamics, as well as wage levels (especially for low-skilled workers)
- The effect of health workforce skills mix, geographical distribution, mobility, and workforce/population demographics on health care delivery, access to care, and quality
- The health workforce demand and training needs under various health care delivery systems (e.g. nationalized, private, public-private insurance mix, managed care)
Required abstract structure: title, author’(s) name/affiliation, theme (from above), background, objectives, data, methods, results, and public and/or health care industry policy implications (and word count; 500 maximum). Email abstract to Amy Nuttbrock at amynuttbrock@berkeley.edu by October 19, 2007 (17:00 PDT). Notification of abstract submission results will be communicated by December 14. If accepted, you will need to submit your manuscript by March 14, 2008. Funding for travel and accommodations will be provided for presenters.
Conference attendance is free, but space is limited. To register, please RSVP to Amy Nuttbrock at amynuttbrock@berkeley.edu or call 1-510-643-4100. Registration deadline is February 29, 2008.
October
2008 Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics - Health Economics and Econometrics: Institute of Health Economics and Management (IEMS), University of Lausanne
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates: 27-28 March 2008
Submission date: 15 November 2007
Venue: Campus of the University of Lausanne
Main theme: Health Economics and Econometrics
Conference website: http://www.sgvs2008.ch/
Main organiser: Institute of Health Economics and Management (IEMS)
Call for papers: Submissions across a wide range of topics in Economics and Econometrics are strongly encouraged, including theoretical, empirical and policy-relevant contributions. The meeting will consist of an open part and a thematic part. The thematic part will focus on Health Economics and Econometrics. Submissions will be accepted from 17 September 2007. Authors must submit full versions of papers by 15 November 2007 via the conference website. Paper acceptance notification will be forwarded by email from 14 December 2007.
Conference registration: Registration to the conference will be possible from 17 September 2007. The deadline for registration to the conference is January 25, 2008.
Publication: A selection of contributions to the thematic part will be published on the website of the society: www.sgvs.ch.
Chair and program committee: The program committee of the meeting will be chaired by Alberto Holly (University of Lausanne) and consists of Philippe Bacchetta (Swiss National Bank and University of Lausanne), Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne), Jean-Pierre Danthine (University of Lausanne), Massimo Filippini (University of Lugano and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Jean Imbs (University of Lausanne), Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne), Robert Leu (University of Bern), Aurelio Mattei (University of Lausanne), Pascal St-Amour (University of Lausanne), Thomas Von Ungern-Sternberg (University of Lausanne) and Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich).
About the University of Lausanne: Founded in 1537, the University of Lausanne is composed of seven faculties where approximately 10’700 students and 2,200 researchers work and study.
The Institute of Health Economics and Management is an interdisciplinary institute attached to the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, the Faculty of Business and Administration the CHUV (Vaud University County Hospital).
UNIL campus is beautifully located, with views of the Alps and Lake Geneva.
Contacts
Scientific Organisation:
Alberto Holly
Institute of Health Economics and Management
University of Lausanne
CH – 1015 Dorigny
Phone: +41 21 692.34.82
Alberto.holly@unil.ch
Administrative Organisation:
Sabrina Migani, Events Manager
Università della Svizzera italiana
Phone: +41 58 666 46 79
Fax: +41 58 666 46 62
congress-sgvs@lu.unisi.ch