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7th Health Economics Meeting. May 31, 2006
DESCRIPTION:
Every year, the Scientific Committee of the Health Economics meeting brings together many of the major figures in the fields of health economics and public health to listen to a number of respected speakers. This book reproduces the proceedings of the 7th Meeting that was held in May 2006.
The theme of the meeting was prevention: prevention means taking action to prevent the onset or aggravation of a disease, or limiting its impact.
The aim is to keep the general population in good health or, more broadly speaking and to use the terms of the WHO, to act on the factors determining health to ensure that every individual is able to reach the best state of health possible.
This study on prevention in public health policies was divided into two parts.
► The first, after having attempted to define the limits of this question and the different individuals and costs involved, was devoted to the perception of health system workers and decision makers.
► The second, after having dealt with one of the key issues in prevention policies, i.e. the question of social inequality with regard to health, discussed the possibility of developing prevention strategies, how such practices should be financed and their role in a global policy that must forcibly be egalitarian, high quality and effective, using such examples as smoking, vaccination programs and safe sex education. At the end of each part of the meeting, a lively debate ensued in which both participants and speakers gave free rein to their thoughts.
The closing lecture by Jean-François Girard went into the conclusions drawn from this meeting in great detail.