AHEAD Forum

https://lagv2018.sciencesconf.org/

http://www.ahead-network.org/en/communi … eport-2018

39èmes Journées des Economistes de la Santé Français (JESF)
Le Collège des Economistes de la Santé (CES),

l’Ecole d’Economie d’Aix-Marseille et la Faculté d’Economie et de Gestion d’Aix-Marseille organisent les 39èmes JESF les 30 novembre et 1er décembre 2017 à MARSEILLE.
Pour toutes informations et vous inscrire, cliquez

Workshop "New Challenges in the Measurement of Economic Inequalities and Injustices".
Mercredi 14 Juin 2017 - 9h00 à Jeudi 15 Juin 2017 - 15h30
Faculté Jules Ferry - Salle du Conseil (S218)
Faculté d'Économie et de Gestion
14, av. Jules Ferry, 13621 Aix-en-Provence.
Program

Dear All,
AHEAD Networks wishes to announce the publication of:

(1) AHEAD Working Paper No. N° 01/2017. Assessing the Potential Welfare and Macroeconomic Effects of Universal Health Coverage: A Dynamic Microsimulation-based CGE Approach Applied to Palestine. Awawda, S. & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2017).
Available for download at: http://www.ahead-network.org/en/communi … /n-01-2017.

(2) AHEAD Working Paper No. N° 02/2017. Public-private differentials in health care delivery: The case of cesarean deliveries in Algeria. Zehnati, A., Bousmah, M.a.Q., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2017).
Available for download at: http://www.ahead-network.org/en/communi … /n-02-2017

The whole AHEAD Working Paper Series is available for download on the AHEAD website, please click here: Working Paper Series.

Should you have any feedback or comments regarding AHEAD Working Papers, please contact our Communications Manager: contactus.ahead@gmail.com.

6TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MICROSIMULATION ASSOCIATION (IMA 2017)
Presented by the International Microsimulation Association
Hosted by Collegio Carlo Alberto
June 21-23, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy

he 6th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association (IMA 2017) will take place at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri, Italy from Wednesday, June 21 through Friday, June 23, 2017. We encourage submissions in the fields (broadly defined) of microsimulation, agent based modelling and computational methods.
PLENARY SPEAKERS

Ugo Colombino, University of Torino, Italy
Herbert Dawid, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Gunnar Eliasson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Richard Morrison, Dynacan, Canada
Gerardo Rubino, Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France
Holly Sutherland, University of Essex, United Kingdom
PROGRAM CHAIR

Matteo Richiardi, Oxford University and University of Torino
PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gijs Dekker, Melissa Favreault, Seiichi Inagaki Jinjing Li, Philippe Liegeois, Cathal O’Donoghue, Sophie Pennec, Matteo Richiardi, Peter Stephensen, Raymond Wagener
DEADLINES

Abstract submissions must be received on or before March 1, 2017.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 31, 2017.
Late abstract submissions (to be considered only subject to slot availability) must be received on or before April 1, 2017.
Authors of late submitted papers will be notified by April 30, 2017.
Early registration must be completed and paid (150 Euros) by April 30, 2017.
Regular registration must be completed and paid (200 Euros) by May 31, 2017.

http://www.carloalberto.org/ima-2017/

Dear All,

ERF wishes to announce the publication of this week’s Working Papers:

Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt?
Ahmed Shoukry Rashad, Mesbah Fathy Sharaf and Elhussien I. Mansour
ERF Working Paper No. 1076

Abstract
We assess the impact of health insurance on the utilization of maternal health care services in Egypt. A propensity score matching is used to control for baseline differences in the characteristics of the insured and uninsured women, to determine the difference in health care utilization between the two groups that is attributed solely to the health insurance coverage. The results yield that the national health insurance has a strong positive impact on most of the maternal healthcare indicators. Public health insurance coverage increases the likelihood of receiving antenatal care by about 7%, delivering in a public health facility by 8%, and the likelihood that a newborn receive vitamin A dose after delivery by 8.2%. However, women who are less educated, from a poor household, and rural regions, are less likely to be covered by a health insurance. The findings of this study would guide intervention measures that aim at improving health care utilization especially among the poor and other vulnerable groups.

ملخص
نقوم بتقييم أثر التأمين الصحي على استخدام خدمات الرعاية الصحية للأمهات في مصر. يتم استخدام مطابقة درجات الميل للسيطرة على الاختلافات الأساسية في خصائص المؤمن عليه وغير المؤمن عليه من النساء، لتحديد الفرق في استخدام الرعاية الصحية بين المجموعتين الذي يعزى فقط إلى تغطية التأمين الصحي. وتنتج النتائج أن التأمين الصحي الوطني له تأثير إيجابي قوي على معظم مؤشرات الرعاية الصحية للأمهات. وتزيد تغطية التأمين الصحي العام من احتمال تلقي الرعاية السابقة للولادة بحوالي 7 في المائة، وتسجل في مرفق صحي عام بنسبة 8 في المائة، واحتمال حصول المولود على جرعة من فيتامين أ بعد الولادة بنسبة 8.2 في المائة. ومع ذلك، فإن احتمال حصول النساء اللواتي يتلقين تعليما أقل من الأسر المعيشية الفقيرة والمناطق الريفية على تغطية صحية أقل. وستسترشد نتائج هذه الدراسة بتدابير التدخل التي تهدف إلى تحسين استخدام الرعاية الصحية وخاصة بين الفقراء وغيرهم من الفئات الضعيفة

La Méditerranée en devenir 2017: Bilan et perspectives des actions sur le champ des études méditerranéennes

La fondation A*Midex, Initiative d’Excellence d’Aix-Marseille Université, a le plaisir de vous inviter à une journée de rencontres, dédiée à la Méditerranée
Mercredi 05 avril 2017 (9h-19h), Siège d’Aix-Marseille Université - Pharo - Marseille amphithéâtre gastaut (SUR INSCRIPTION).

Dans le cadre de la pérennisation de l’Idex, cette journée sera l’occasion de consacrer un temps fort à la Méditerranée et de mettre en exergue les perspectives scientifiques sur ce champ de compétences. La vocation de cette journée est de réaliser un état des lieux des actions mises en oeuvre jusqu’à présent sur l’aire méditerranéenne par la fondation A*Midex et de permettre un temps d’échanges autour de futures actions.

PRÉ-PROGRAMME
• Matin : présentation de l’axe Méditerranée au sein A*Midex (appels à projets, Labex).
• Pause méridienne : buffet en présence d’Yvon Berland, Président d’Aix-Marseille Université
• Après-midi : perspectives européennes en présence d’un représentant de la Commission Européenne. Ateliers thématiques et interdisciplinaires.

Pour vous inscrire, merci de renvoyer le coupon-réponse joint par mail avant le 1er mars 2017 à Mathilde Vivot,
Chargée de projet International
mathilde.vivot@univ-amu.fr

3rd IRDES Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation
Paris, France, 22nd-23rd June 2017
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the third IRDES Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation, to take place in Paris on June 22nd-23rd 2017. The workshop is organized by IRDES, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics, Paris, France, with the Chaire Santé Dauphine. Submission and selection of papers.You are invited to submit a full paper before the 16th January 2017. Papers will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of a full or advanced draft written in English. Papers should include empirical material and only unpublished papers at the time of the submission will be accepted. The submission should contain author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), a structured abstract and keywords (up to five). Authors have to submit their complete papers in PDF format through the Registration and submission form.

Decisions will be made by March 3rd 2017. Registration will be open thereafter. Registration and fees. Registration fees are 200 euros. Only authors or coauthors can apply for registration. Some PhD students or early career researchers may benefit from free registration upon request.
Program. The workshop will cover the following topics, with an emphasis on Public Policies analysis and evaluation: Social Health Inequalities, Health services utilization, Insurance, Health services delivery and organization, Econometric methodology. About 16 papers will be selected. Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion (introduced by a participant or a member of the scientific committee).
Scientific committee. Damien Bricard (IRDES), Philippe Choné (CREST and Chaire Santé Dauphine), Brigitte Dormont (Paris Dauphine University and Chaire santé Dauphine), Paul Dourgnon (IRDES), Alberto Holly (HEC Lausanne), Owen O’Donnell (University of Macedonia and Erasmus university), Julien Mousquès (IRDES)

Contact: ahepe@irdes.fr
For more info.
http://www.irdes.fr/english/conferences … ation.html

Call for abstracts: 2017 iHEA World Congress of Health Economics, 7-11 July 2017, Boston
iHEA is pleased to invite you to join us in Boston for the 12th World Congress in Health Economics:
Revolutions in the Economics of Health Systems. iHEA Congresses are well established as the forum to hear new and hopefully revolutionary work in health economics. Highlights of the program include the confirmed plenary presentations by Carol Propper and Daron Acemoğlu. In addition, the Scientific Committee in close collaboration with the Local Organizing Committee are developing a number of Special Organized Sessions.
There will also be an exciting pre-congress program on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July 2017. You will have received separate calls for abstracts for three of these pre-congress sessions that will take the form of mini-conferences:
•    Behavioural economics and physician behaviour (abstract submissions close on 16 January 2017 – click here to submit an abstract
•    Frontiers of health economics research in Latin America (abstract submissions close on 30 January 2017  – click here to submit an abstract
•    Teaching health economics (abstract submissions close on 30 January 2017  – click here to submit an abstract

Abstract submissions for the main congress will close on 16 January 2017. We would like to encourage health economists to make submissions in the form of an individual abstract or in terms of an organised session.  Each parallel session will be 90 minutes, with a maximum of four presentations per session to ensure adequate time for discussion. Abstracts should focus on research that has not been published or accepted for publication at the time of abstract submission.  While individuals may submit more than one abstract, to foster diversity, each person will be restricted to presenting only one paper at the Congress.

In an attempt to ensure that every submission is reviewed by appropriate experts we ask all submitters to nominate the most relevant area of health economics from the list below as part of their submission:
1.     Production of health, health behaviours & policy interventions
2.     Demand & utilisation of health services
3.     Supply of health services
4.     Organisation of health care markets
5.     Health care financing & expenditures
6.     Economic evaluation of health
7.     Evaluation of policy, programs and health system performance
8.     Methodology
9.     Specific populations

In addition, the Scientific Committee has identified a number of specific research topics and encourages submission of individual abstracts that match one of the following:
•     Child development in less developed countries
•     Access to medicines in less developed countries
•     Big data and health economics
•     Improving outcome measurement in economic evaluation
•     Cost-effectiveness thresholds:  where are we now?
•     Shared Decision Making: The Patient Perspective
•     Implications of expanding access to mental health care
•     International comparisons of drug reimbursement approaches
•     The role of profit motivation in health care provision
•     Mixed public-private health systems
•     Waiting times for healthcar
•     Experiments in health economics
•     Demand and utilisation of prescription opioids
•     Demand and utilisation of health services among those with multiple chronic conditions
•     Low cost medical technologies in low- and middle-income countries
•     Measuring effective coverage

Successful abstracts related to these topics will be chosen to constitute what are being called Special Invited Sessions.  Abstracts that are not chosen for a Special Invited Session will still be eligible for inclusion in the program as part of other general parallel sessions. Further details explaining each of these topics are provided HERE.
Please submit your abstracts HERE.

For any enquiries about the submission process please contact events@healtheconomics.org.

e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage (UHC)
http://www.who.int/health_financing/tra … or-uhc/en/

Call for abstracts: 2017 iHEA World Congress of Health Economics, 8-11 July 2017, Boston
iHEA is pleased to invite you to join us in Boston for the 12th World Congress in Health Economics. iHEA Congresses are well established as the forum to hear new and hopefully revolutionary work in health economics. Our theme, Revolutions in the Economics of Health Systems, reflects this desire to provide a high quality and innovative program and to facilitate interaction with colleagues from around the globe in the city of Boston that is associated with many reminders of the American Revolution.

Highlights of the program include the confirmed plenary presentations by Carol Propper and Daron Acemoğlu. In addition, the Scientific Committee in close collaboration with the Local Organizing Committee are developing a number of Special Organized Sessions. There will also be an exciting pre-congress program.

Abstract submissions formally opened on 21 November 2016 and will close on 16 January 2017. We would like to encourage health economists to make submissions in the form of an individual abstract or in terms of an organized session. Submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and submitters will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 10 March 2017 and will be expected to register for the Congress by 31 March 2017, the date on which early bird registration will close.

Each parallel session will be 90 minutes, with a maximum of four presentations per session to ensure adequate time for discussion. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words and should focus on research that has not been published or accepted for publication at the time of abstract submission. Organized sessions can either take the form of an integrated set of 3-4 presentations with considerable time for open discussion with session participants, or a panel discussion or debate that actively encourages participation. Proposals for organized sessions should include a 750 word description of the session, including how participant discussion will be promoted, as well as a 500 word abstract for each paper that will be presented. While individuals may submit more than one abstract, to foster diversity, each person will be restricted to presenting only one paper at the Congress.

In an attempt to ensure that every submission is reviewed by appropriate experts we ask all submitters to nominate the most relevant area of health economics as part of their submission. Broad fields of health economics are given below, but within each, the submission system will allow further refinement of area by allowing for the specification of a sub-field.

1.    Production of health, health behaviours & policy interventions
2.    Demand & utilisation of health services
3.    Supply of health services
4.    Organization of health care markets
5.    Health care financing & expenditures
6.    Economic evaluation of health
7.    Evaluation of policy, programs and health system performance
8.    Methodology
9.    Specific populations

The full list of broad fields and sub-fields is provided HERE.

In addition, the Scientific Committee has identified a number of specific research topics and encourages submission of individual abstracts that match one of the following:

•    Child development in less developed countries
•    Access to medicines in less developed countries
•    Big data and health economics
•    Improving outcome measurement in economic evaluation
•    Cost-effectiveness thresholds:  where are we now?
•    Shared Decision Making: The Patient Perspective
•    Implications of expanding access to mental health care
•    International comparisons of drug reimbursement approaches
•    The role of profit motivation in health care provision
•    Mixed public-private health systems
•    Waiting times for healthcare
•    Experiments in health economics
•    Demand and utilisation of prescription opioids
•    Demand and utilisation of health services among those with multiple chronic conditions
•    Low cost medical technologies in low- and middle-income countries
•    Measuring effective coverage

Successful abstracts related to these topics will be chosen to constitute what are being called Special Invited Sessions.  Abstracts that are not chosen for a Special Invited Session will still be eligible for inclusion in the program as part of other general parallel sessions. Further details explaining each of these topics are provided HERE.

For any enquiries about the submission process please contact,
events@healtheconomics.org