title: 10th World IHEA and ECHE Joint Congress: health economics in the age of longevity.
abstract: The 10th consecutive World Health Economics conference was organized jointly by International Health Economics Association and European Conference on Health Economics Association and took place at The Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in July 2014. It has attracted broad participation from the global professional community devoted to health economics teaching,research and policy applications. It has provided a forum for lively discussion on hot contemporary issues such as health expenditure projections, reimbursement regulations,health technology assessment, universal insurance coverage, demand and supply of hospital services, prosperity diseases, population aging and many others. The high-profile debate fostered by this meeting is likely to inspire further methodological advances worldwide and spreading of evidence-based policy practice from OECD towards emerging markets.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Kragujevac, Svetozara Markovica 69, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
authors.forename: Mihajlo B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Jakovljevic
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Getzen
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torbica
authors.forename: Tomofumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Anegawa
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics; D008136:Longevity; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics; D013997:Time Factors; D019472:Universal Health Insurance / Q000191:economics