EHPG MEETING
April 14, 2011
European Health Policy Group, April 14th-15th 2011
Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Local Organiser: Roland Bal
Location: Woudestein Campus, J-building, 8th Floor
12.00pm: Lunch
1.00pm: Endogeneity and policy transfer in the Italian National Health Service
Authors: Giovanni Fattore, Francesco Longo and Fabrizio Tediosi
Discussant: Monika Steffen
Chair: Jan-Kees Helderman
2.00pm: Studying markets and public values in the making: the transfer of financial market devices to the Dutch long-term care sector
Authors: Kor Grit, Tom van der Grinten and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
Discussant: Carolyn Tuohy
Chair: Patrick Jeurissen
3.00pm: Tea/coffee
3.30pm: The role of diagnosis related groups in health care system convergence
Author: Mirella Cacace
Discussant: David Wilsford
Chair: John Appleby
4.30pm: Keynote: “Public Health Policy: Mission in Search of Evidence”.
Speaker: Marianne Donker
Chair: Roland Bal
Marianne Donker is Professor of Public Health at the Erasmus Medical Centre. From April 1st , she is Director of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Health in the Netherlands. Until 31 March 2011, she was the Chief Science Officer for the City of Rotterdam.
5.30pm: Close
6.15pm: Boats to Hotel New York
7.00pm: Conference dinner
9.30am: The distribution of household expenditure on health care during the period of health care reform in Hungary
Authors: Petra Baji and Lászlo Gulácsi
Discussant: Paul Batchelor
Chair: Tom van der Grinten
10.30am: Tea/coffee
11.00am: Health care system change and the cross-border diffusion of ideas in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands
Authors: Stephanie Heinemann, Stefan Greß and Simone Leiber
Discussant: Joe White
Chair: Melanie Lisac
12.00pm: Business Meeting: discusssion of ideas for future themes/topics/locations.
Chair: Jan-Kees Helderman
1.00pm: Lunch