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

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).

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:

Abstracts should be maximum 400 words long and they shoul be sent to Ivan Kovanovic, i.kovanovic@lse.ac.uk.

LSEE - Research on South East Europe
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Andrija Štampar School of Public Health

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