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Health Reforms in South East Europe
Conference venue: Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Period: May 24-25, 2010
Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 31, 2010
Deadline for submitting full papers: May 14, 2010
Notification of abstracts acceptance: April 14, 2010
Publication of conference volume with selected papers: May 2011
Description of the workshop
The objective of the workshop is to discuss the effects of the health reforms on efficiency, effectiveness and equity in South East Europe. In particular some aspects which characterise these reforms will be underlined (i.e. the moving away from rigid systems of centralized planning and the increasing use of competitive market systems to allocate health care resources; the corruption and inefficiencies of the financial health system in this area, and so on).
Eligible topics for the workshop
Researches from all fields of social science, including economics, politics, sociology, and health studies are invited to submit their proposals.
The main topics of the workshop are:
- Primary health care reforms in South East Europe;
- Polyclinics or family doctors as a model for primary health care;
- Resource allocation and planning in health systems;
- Impact of the global economic crisis on health systems in SEE;
- Financing of health systems and long-term sustainability;
- Efficiency and management of hospitals in South East Europe;
- Decentralisation of health systems;
- Public health and lifestyles.
Guidelines for submission
Abstracts should be maximum 400 words long and they shoul be sent to Ivan Kovanovic, i.kovanovic@lse.ac.uk.
Organization
LSEE - Research on South East Europe
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Andrija Štampar School of Public Health
Information & contacts
LSEE - Research on South East Europe
address: European Institute, LSE, Cowdray House, J 201 Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
tel.: 0044.(0)20.7955.7198
fax: 0044.(0)20.7955.6497
e-mail: Euroinst.Lsee@lse.ac.uk
website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/Home.aspx
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Secretariat BRUSSELS
WHO European Centre for Health Policy
address: Rue de l'Autonomie, 4
B - 1070 Brussels, Belgium
tel.: 0032.2.525.0935
e-mail: info@obs.euro.who.int
website: http://www.euro.who.int/observatory
Andrija Štampar School of Public Health
address: Rockefellerova 4
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
tel.: 00385(0).1.4590.100
fax: 00385(0).1.4684.441
e-mail: info@snz.hr
website: http://www.snz.hr/cms/index.php?lang=en
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