190574 Economic principles in health care

Sunday, October 26, 2008: 9:45 AM

Carol L. Macnee, PhD , C/O Health as Human Capital Foundation, Cheyenne, WY
Marcie Lee Thomas, MS , Health as Human Capital Foundation, Cheyenne, WY
The discussion of six major economic principles in relation to the US healthcare system includes historical definitions, and Nobel Prize winning research on how economics rule and influence health care cost and quality; examples and studies include new finding from US workplace research on personal behaviors and choices in health care.

Learning Objectives:
List the four kinds of spending, using Milton Friedman's model, which provide incentives for health care and health behavior choices.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Academic Credentials BSN University of Michigan MSN University of Virginia PhD University of Michigan “I am qualified to be planning, coordinating or organizing because I am currently a Professor of Nursing and the Director of Research at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming. In my 30 years of experience as a nurse and 20 years of practice as an adult nurse practitioner, I have served as a co-Director for two different primary care clinics and implemented a DHHS program grant to develop clinical and educational services in a clinic in Southern Appalachia. I have also established a program of funded research examining health behavior change and outcomes of primary care. I have been a nurse educator with academic appointments for 17 years, and have participated as faulty for the Health as Human Capital approach for three years. I have organized a variety of continuing education programs, ranging from short one hour continuing education programs, to all day work shops. Most recently I have coordinated the Wyoming Nursing Summits in 2005, 2006, and 2007 which were one and a half day conferences regarding nursing and nursing workforce. I was on the planning committee for the development of a two day Child’s Health Interdisciplinary program offered in the Fall of this year, including completing the application for CEUs for nursing for this program; and I was a member of the planning committee for a one day work shop “Pandemic Flu: It is your business” presented September 6, 2007 ” Memberships: American Public Health Association; Sigma Theta Tau; American Nurses Association; Council for the Advancement of Nursing Scholarship.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.