Building bridges between health economics research and public policy evaluation

Abstract

The Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES) Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation aims at disseminating health economic research’s newest findings and enhancing the community’s capacity to address issues that are relevant to public policy. The 2010 program consisted of 16 articles covering a vast range of topics, such as health insurance, social health inequalities and health services research. While most of the articles embedded theoretical material, all had to include empirical material in order to favor more applied and practical discussions and results. The 2010 workshop is to be the first of a series of annual workshops in Paris gathering together researchers on health economics and policy evaluation. The next workshop is to be held at IRDES in June 2011.

Keywords::

• econometrics
• health insurance
• health services research
• health services utilization
• policy evaluation
• social health inequalities

IRDES Committee members

The following individuals are members of the IRDES Committee: Thierry Debrand (IRDES, Paris, France), Paul Dourgnon (IRDES), Brigitte Dormont (Paris Dauphine University, France), Alberto Holly (HEC Lausanne, Switzerland), Jeremiah Hurley (McMaster University, Canada) and Lise Rochaix (HAS, St Denis, France).

Financial disclosure

The workshop has benefited from a grant from the Risk Foundation (a French foundation funded by private insurance providers)[119]and has obtained the financial support of IRDES. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.