Social Science meetings & conferences

12th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy

24-27 June 2013, Athens, Greece

The Health  Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 12th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy 24-27 June 2013, Athens, Greece.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of health economics, management and policy. Areas of interest include (but are not confined to): Equity and Poverty in Health, Pharmaceutical Economics, Quality of Life, Economic Evaluation, Health Care Reforms, Social Security, School Health Programs, Health Law and Health Related Business.

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.

American Association for the History of Nursing Thirtieth Annual History of Nursing Conference

Cleveland, Ohio September 26-29, 2013

The American Association for the History of Nursing and the Cleveland Clinic, are co-sponsoring the Association’s thirtieth annual conference to be held in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference provides a forum for researchers interested in sharing new research that addresses events, issues, and topics pertinent to the history of the global nursing profession, its clinical practice, and the field of nursing history. Individual papers, posters, and panel presentations are featured at the conference. Additional information about AAHN and the conference can be obtained at www.aahn.org.

2013 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference

June 6 to June 7, 2013 at the Center for Economics and Neuroscience of the University of Bonn,  Bonn, Germany

Global Health and Well-Being: The Social Work Response

June 17 - 19, 2013 NYU Global Center for Spiritual and Academic Life & NYU Kimmel Center for University Life New York, NY

Co-Sponsored by the National Association of Deans and Directors (NADD)

There is converging agreement about the world's most pressing health and psychosocial problems. These include the role of poverty; the rights and equality of women and children; the voluntary and involuntary movement of populations; disasters, natural and man-made; and the fundamental role of economic inequality in health and well-being outcomes such as mental health, addiction, and the incidences of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

This conference will focus on defining social work's unique contribution to the multidisciplinary efforts to better understand and address the grand challenges of our world. Through presentation of strong international research and examinations of social programs designed to understand and ameliorate the world's most pressing health and social problems, this conference will contribute to better understanding of the social work profession's contributions to human well-being around the world.

The conference will feature keynote papers by social work and other interdisciplinary leaders in global health and well-being. Juried presentations will highlight the range of social work research and response to advance well-being and health of people around the world.

Conference Themes:

Global Poverty (food and housing insecurity; economic development; environmental safety)
Public Health (social determinants of health; maternal and child health; mental health; addiction; disease and illness; income and other inequalities)
Women and Girls (gender equity; social development)
Children (orphans and vulnerable children)
Human Rights and Social Justice
Access to Health Care and Social Resources
Strengthening Care and Service Delivery
Trauma, Crises, and Response (natural disasters; war; violence)
Population Movements and Trafficking (war and refugees; immigration/migration; human trafficking)

Featuring:

Keynote Addresses
Roundtable Discussions
Panels
Breakout Workshops
Banquets
Luncheons
Student Forum

Additional Options:

Cultural Events
Agency Visits

European Association for the History of Medicine and Health--Risk and Disaster in Medicine and Health

The next EAHMH conference will be in Lisbon, Portugal, 4-7 September 2013.  The conference will be on the theme of 'Risk and Disaster in Health and Medicine' and it will be co-organised by the Universities of Evora and Lisbon

Risks and disasters have always been central issues in health and medicine. They illuminate the interfaces between science, medicine, environment, economy, society, culture and politics. Responses to preventive measures have often reflected tensions between the perceived wider social and economic benefits of interventions and the short-term costs imposed on individuals, specific social groups or society at large. One issue raised by such tensions has been whether individual freedom is deemed less important than the health of the community. Threats of epidemics have provoked local, national and international agencies to adopt drastic measures, consciously balancing the risk of disease against the economic risks posed by the disruption of trade or the implementation of expensive sanitary or environmental-protection measures whose cost-effectiveness was difficult to foresee.

The strategies developed to cope with risk and disaster form the core of public health and medical philosophy, ranging from quarantines and vaccinations to screening programmes and high-tech medical monitoring. Yet there are distinct national and chronological differences in definitions, perceptions and representation of risks and dangers. They also vary according to the decision makers and broader publics: governments, medical professionals and other agencies, and different social classes, ethnic and gender groups.

The Lisbon Conference will have special sessions on the ‘History of Medicine on Display’, covering museology and the history
of medicine and health as well as other practices of displaying the history of medicine to the public.

2nd Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion

May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

What Does It Mean to Care? Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today 

At the heart of medicine is care. Medical care, surgical care, nursing care, wound care, palliative care, even spiritual care—almost everything health professionals do is advanced as a form of care. Yet patients, health professionals, and critics of medicine often question how much care there is in health care. Moreover, it is often unclear how health care fits into a faithful life, as understood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The second annual National Conference on Medicine and Religion will provide a forum for scholars and health care professionals to ask what it means to care and how the traditions and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam inform possible answers to the question.

What is the care that faith requires, with respect to one’s patients, one’s colleagues, and oneself? How are professionalized forms of care related to and potentially in tension with the care provided in other contexts? How do both types of care relate to the care taught by different religious traditions? What sort of care does contemporary medicine propose to provide and actually provide? What can we learn from paradigmatic expressions of care found within religious texts and historical or contemporary religious communities? How do illness experiences and health care practices inform and shape religious norms and practices? How do religious traditions and practices challenge or propose an alternative to conventional health care norms and practices?

For questions concerning the conference, please contact the Program on Medicine and Religion at medrelig@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0903.

AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting

June 23-25, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

For 30 years, AcademyHealth's ARM has been the premier forum for health services research, where more than 2,200 attendees gather to discuss health policy implications, sharpen research methods, and network with colleagues from around the world. The ARM program is designed for health services researchers, providers, key decision makers, clinicians, graduate students, and research analysts.

Conference Themes

Behavioral Health

Health Care Workforce

Medicare

Child Health

Health Information Technology

Methods Research

Complex Chronic Conditions

Improving Quality and Value

Organizational Behavior and Management

Consumer Choice and Behavior

Long-Term Care

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Coverage Dynamics and Access

Measuring Quality and Value

Payment Delivery System Innovations

Disparities and Health Equity

Medicaid's Expansion

Public and Population Health

Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference

June 24th - 26th 2013, Bristol, United Kingdom

Conference themes

Healthy and Creative Ageing

Global Health Inequalities and Culture

Culture and the Social Determinants of Wellbeing

With a particular focus on:

Research

The latest research and new methodologies

The dissemination of international research and evaluation

Practice

Museums and Health

Arts in healthcare settings

Arts and health promotion/prevention

Contact us

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing conference is being delivered by Arts & Health South West on behalf of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing with the support of the Royal Society for Public Health.

Arts & Health South West
PO Box 7515
Dorchester
DT1 9FX

+44 1305 269081
info@culturehealthwellbeing.org.uk

9th World Congress on Health Economics: Celebrating Health Economics

Sydney, Australia

Congress: 7-10 July 2013

Pre-Congress: 6-7 July

Our theme is Celebrating Health Economics. 2013 will mark fifty years since the publication of Kenneth Arrow’s ‘Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care’ in The American Economic Review. Its significance is such that many regard it as the seminal work in health economics, and date the founding of our discipline from then.
 

Analyzing Markets for Health-Related Goods and Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

An iHEA Pre-Congress Symposium

July 6, 2013 Sydney, Australia

This one-day symposium is envisaged as a dialogue between researchers, international organizations, and policy makers with a goal of moving forward discussion on the performance of health markets in low- and middle-income countries and of interventions aimed at improving this performance. For all sessions, authors are encouraged to consider the relevance, implications, and ramifications of their findings as they apply to health systems in low- and middle-income countries.

If you have questions regarding the symposium – please contact us!

Karampreet Sachathep
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
E-mail: ksachath@jhsph.edu

or

David Bishai
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
E-mail: dbishai@jhsph.edu