The Portuguese Association for Health Economics will hold the 15th Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics in Coimbra. The conference is an opportunity to debate, review, and disseminate major developments in research and policy. It brings the work of researchers, from Portugal and from all over the world, to a wide audience of health providers, managers and decision makers. The participation of non-Portuguese health economists is strongly encouraged.
The 15th Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics is open to the following topics:
⦁ Life-style and risk factors in health
⦁ Social inequality and the determinants of health
⦁ Equity in financing and delivery of health care
⦁ Financing and sustainability of health systems
⦁ Payment systems
⦁ Markets and regulation
⦁ Economics of the hospital sector
⦁ Demand for health care and user charges
⦁ Health insurance and the public-private mix
⦁ Cost of illness and budgetary impact
⦁ Economic evaluation of health technologies
⦁ Outcomes measurement and quality of life
⦁ Pharmacoeconomics
⦁ Regulation of pharmaceutical markets
⦁ Applied health econometrics
