New Frontiers In Health Policy Evaluation
European Health Policy Group (EHPG)
April 29-30th 2010

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Zeynep Or

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Presentation

Program

Abstracts

Contributors

Presentation

The theme of this meeting is "New frontiers in health policy evaluation". The papers will propose and/or compare:

• Different / innovative methods (econometric / statistic, etc.) used in evaluation;
• Original assessment of the effectiveness of selected reforms/health policy, which can be the comparative cross-country evaluation of a given policy, or a comparative assessment of different policies on one issue within a country;
• Place/role of policy evaluation in different health systems
• Difficulties/issues in carrying out policy evaluation (from researchers' point of view);
• Role of international evidence/comparisons in policy evaluation.

General

The objective of EHPG meetings is that we can all learn about experience of other (primarily) European countries and from perspectives of other disciplines. One objective of the meetings is to foster opportunities for collaboration between authors from different countries and different disciplines.

Meetings are organised on the basis that participants will have read each paper and discussants, not authors, present papers. This means that authors need to email final drafts of all papers to discussants of their paper and to the organiser for distribution to those attending the meeting at least four weeks before the date of each meeting. Papers ought not be to too long - the ideal length is about 5000 words. Authors may agree with discussants to let them see earlier drafts well before this absolute deadline.

Discussants have a vital role at EHPG meetings. Their primary task is to present what the paper is about and summarize its main findings. In their commentary they can offer their quite different perspectives (of country or discipline or both) in addition to a general critique. The style of the discussant's commentary ought to be in that of a critical friend to the author, suggesting how the paper might be improved for publication.

Each session begins by the Chair introducing the author(s), discussant(s) and the title of the paper(s) to be presented and discussed. The Chair then invites discussant(s) to present the paper and to highlight issues for discussion. Each discussant is allowed 20 minutes to do this. The Chair then gives authors an opportunity for a brief response to clarify issues raised by discussants, before inviting contributions from all participants, and gives authors and discussants the opportunity for closing observations on the discussion of each paper.