Topics: - The impacts of demography (ageing and immigration) and globalisation both on macroeconomic behavioural functions, on macroeconomic equilibrium and on the different specific models the countries have adopted for social protection - What reforms and what governance for European social...

AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting brings together health services researchers, providers, and key decision makers to address the critical challenges confronting the health care delivery system. The meeting provides opportunities to present and hear about cutting-edge research, debate...

The theme chosen is Partnership and Innovation in Global Health, expressing the need for collaboration to develop the quality of global health and achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals. Global collaboration means collaboration between North and South, South and South, North and North,...

Research submissions on the following topics are considered: - Clinical Outcomes Studies - Cost Studies - Patient-Reported Outcomes - Health Care Use & Policy Studies - Methods & Concepts

The issues addressed in this conference thus lie at both the national and the international level, with a particular focus on the interaction between these two levels. At the national level, the question is how the regulation of medical technology can be improved to serve a country’s policy...

Hundreds of Conference Sessions For Anyone Interested In: Global Health; International Development; Millennium Development Goals; Public Health; Overseas Volunteering; Health and Human Rights; Refugee Health; HIV/AIDS; Infectious Disease; Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofits;...

Subject areas - The Burden of Mental and Addictive Disorders - The Value of Psychiatric Treatments and Services Provision - Financing Psychiatric Services and Treatments - Financing Psychiatric and Social Services for Special Populations - Rationing - Moral Hazard and Cost-sharing - Ethics and...

The purpose of this invitational conference is to facilitate discussion of the latest health economics research among a relatively small group of economists.

Subject areas (not exhaustive) for the submission of abstracts of original research are listed below. - The Burden of Mental and Addictive Disorders - The Value of Psychiatric Treatments and Services Provision - Financing Psychiatric Services and Treatments - Financing Psychiatric and Social...

Eating Ourselves Sick: The Health and Economic Challenges of Obesity Population and policy approaches to obesity