SCHEDULE: MONDAY

Wednesday Sessions

Wednesday Morning
Room	8:30 am	10:00 am	11:15 am
No.2 Hall A	Econometrics of evaluating health programs and policies in developing and transition economies Chair: Owen O'Donnell Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Use and validation of the vignettes approach to enhance comparability of reported health and health system responsiveness Chair: Owen O'Donnell Starts at 10 a.m.	Hospitals 2 Starts at 11:15 a.m.
No.2 Hall B	Beyond the Millenium Development Goals: Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease and injury in developing countries Starts at 8:30 a.m.	How can we achieve scientific rigour in evaluation of health system interventions? Chair: Anne Mills Starts at 10 a.m.	Insurance Systems Chair: Toni Ashton Starts at 11:15 a.m.
No.2 Hall C	Topics on health workforce: diversity, pay and promotion Chair: Joanne Spetz Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Efficiency measurement in developing countries Chair: Bruce Hollingsworth Starts at 10 a.m.	Poverty Chair: Soonman Kwon Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201A	Key Methodological Challenges in the Conduct of Child Health Economic Evaluation Chair: Wendy Ungar Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies Chair: Gerry Bloom Starts at 10 a.m.	Equity Chair: Laksono Trisnantoro Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201B	TBA Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency Chair: Mingshan Lu Starts at 10 a.m.	Financing Chair: Hasbullah Thabrany Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201C	The Holy Grail of Effective Purchasing: Implementation Challenges and Experiences Chair: Anne Mills Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Reality is horrendously complicated’ – Accommodating complexity in economic evaluation Chair: Stephen Birch Starts at 10 a.m.	Economic Experiments Chair: Peter Zweifel Starts at 11:15 a.m.
310	Incentives and Competition in Hospital and Physician Markets Chair: Robert Town Starts at 8:30 a.m.	The conduct of health economic evaluation for children in the developing world Chair: Wendy Ungar Starts at 10 a.m.	Health System Reform Chair: Ren Ran Starts at 11:15 a.m.
303	Cancer Screening 2 Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Public Health Chair: Sandhya Srigiriraju Starts at 10 a.m.	Labour Issues Chair: Richard Dunn Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305A	Health Systems Chair: Richard Madden Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Health Status Estimation Chair: Nathan Tefft Starts at 10 a.m.	CEA Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305B	Decision Making Chair: Nathan Tefft Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Health Care Costing Chair: Richard Dunn Starts at 10 a.m.	Economic Evaluation Chair: Silvia Evers Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305C	Treatment Issues Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Efficiency in Hospitals Chair: Melitta Jakab Starts at 10 a.m.	Private Sector Chair: S.K. Godwin Starts at 11:15 a.m.
307	Treatment Costs Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Health Equity Chair: Rachael Moorin Starts at 10 a.m.	Health Insurance 2 Chair: Minglai Zhu Starts at 11:15 a.m.
308	Time-Use and Health Chair: Bernard van den Berg Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Income Inequality Chair: Heather McLeod Starts at 10 a.m.	Utilization Chair: Nathan Tefft Starts at 11:15 a.m.
311A	Costing Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Health Status Methodology Starts at 10 a.m.	Methodology/Modelling Chair: Leonie Segal Starts at 11:15 a.m.
311B	Obesity Chair: Tim McBride Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Role of Insurance Chair: Ali Ghufron Mukti Starts at 10 a.m.	Physician Issues Chair: Dominic Hodgkin Starts at 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday Afternoon
Room	1:15 pm	2:30 pm
No.2 Hall A	Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Capital Chair: Eric Nauenberg Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Ageing and health care expenditures Chair: Terkel Christiansen Starts at 2:30 p.m.
No.2 Hall B	Equity in Health: Emerging Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region Chair: Akiko Maeda Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Availability and financing of Healthcare in Rural India Chair: Louis Niessen Starts at 2:30 p.m.
No.2 Hall C	Tobacco Taxation in China Chair: Teh-wei Hu Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Increasing Access to Health Services by the Poor: Afghanistan, China, and Uganda Chair: David Peters Starts at 2:30 p.m.
201A	Socio-economic rationales to define national benefits packages: Applications countries in Europe, North America & China Chair: Min Yu Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Road to A Harmonious Society: Evaluation of China’s Health Care Reform Experiments Chair: William Hsiao Starts at 2:30 p.m.
201B	Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia (HEFPA) Chair: Eddy van Doorslaer Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Obesity and related economic issues Chair: Youfa Wang Starts at 2:30 p.m.
201C	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development Chair: Zhang Zhenzhong Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Health Economics and Violence Prevention Chair: Curtis Florence Starts at 2:30 p.m.
310	Prevention & Vaccines Chair: Michele Amaral Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Measuring inequality of opportunity in health Chair: Eddy van Doorslaer Starts at 2:30 p.m.
303	Health Expenditures Chair: Qiao Nan Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Theory in Equity Chair: Nathan Tefft Starts at 2:30 p.m.
305A	Equity in Care Chair: John Wildman Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Cost-Effectiveness Methods Chair: Oliver Rivero Starts at 2:30 p.m.
305B	Modelling Chair: Frank Windmeijer Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Hospital Issues Starts at 2:30 p.m.
305C	Propensity Score Matching Chair: Pengxiang Li Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Self-Assessed Health Status Chair: Sonia Aziz Starts at 2:30 p.m.
307	Maternal & Child Health Chair: Birger Forsberg Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Drug Use Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 2:30 p.m.
308	Quality of Life Chair: Richard Dunn Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Technology 2 Starts at 2:30 p.m.
311A	Impact of Disease Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Mental Health Chair: Richard Dunn Starts at 2:30 p.m.
311B	Cost of HIV Treatment Starts at 1:15 p.m.	Technology Issues Chair: Lizheng Shi Starts at 2:30 p.m.