SSRN Announcement: Announcing New Health Economics Network

Announcing New Health Economics Network

We are pleased to announce the creation of the Health Economics Network (HEN). It will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all areas of Health Economics, following the model of other subject matter networks within SSRN.

We expect HEN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in Health Economics, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship.

HEN is sponsored by the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), an organization dedicated to increasing communication among health economists, fostering a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assisting young researchers at the start of their careers.

The network will be directed by Thomas E. Getzen, Executive Secretary and CEO of iHEA and Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management at Temple University. Getzen will be assisted by Tor Iversen, Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oslo in Norway, and David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University.

Initially, HEN will begin with the following subject matter journals. We look forward to adding more as HEN grows.

Demand & Supply in Health Economics
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This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers in applied and theoretical research on the demand and supply of health and health services including, but not limited to, econometric methods, consumer behavior, utilization of services, physician supply and other workforce issues, hospital behavior, nursing home behavior, and other microeconomic applications.

Geographic Health Economics
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This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers on the latest research in health economics within specific regions or countries (e.g. Asia, Europe, France, Korea, USA) and also on cross-border trade and comparative studies of health economics in different geographic regions.

Health & the Economy
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This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers on a wide range of topics in health economics. Topics of interest include demography, human capital modeling, morbidity and mortality, historical studies, education, women's and children's health, and health and economic development.

Health Economics Evaluation Methods
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This abstracting journal welcomes research with a focus on cost-effectiveness and cost benefit analysis in health economics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, theory, valuation (such as QALYs), value of a statistical life and QoL studies, pharmacoeconomics, smoking and tobacco, studies of specific health conditions (e.g. cardiology, HIV, transplants), and cost measurement.

Insurance & Financing in Health Economics
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This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers on the latest in research in health insurance and finance. The journal welcomes research focused on issues in health insurance and financing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, insurance, budgeting, capital markets, financing and taxation, risk, and macroeconomic issues.

Public Goods & Regulation in Health Economics
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This abstracting journal welcomes research with a focus on regulation in health care, public health, information, and ethics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, welfare theory, equity and distribution, public goods, ethical issues, information, law and regulation, including malpractice issues and issues related to profit/nonprofit organizations, and industrial organization and antitrust issues.

Additional abstracting journals will be added later.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can subscribe to the journals by clicking on the "subscribe" link listed below each journal's name. You can also subscribe to all of the journals at once by clicking here: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=HEN-all-inclusive-journal

Individual subscriptions to the HEN eJournals will be free during the start-up phase, ending September 2008. After that, individual subscriptions, for all HEN eJournals, will be $35 per year. Organization Site Subscriptions will also be available.

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Sincerely,

Thomas E. Getzen
Director
Health Economics Network

Posted 5/2/08