3136.2 Health Economics: Care Costs & Evaluations of Interventions

Monday, November 8, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session presents significant economic issues related to the economic burden of illness and the efficiency of health care organization and practice, from both micro- and macro-economic perspectives. At the micro level, cost effectiveness analyses are presented of innovative practice and organizational changes, including public-private partnerships for chronic disease management and control. At the macro level, the effects of macroeconomic cycles on depression are analyzed to elucidate the multilevel context for economic determinants of health.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss health economic analyses from micro and macro perspectives. 2. Describe efficient mechanisms for practice and organizational change in chronic disease management 3. Name some evaluation strategies for comparative cost effectiveness research.
Moderator:
Marianne Fahs, PhD, MPH

10:30am
Asthma bottom line: Return on investment analysis of a collaboration between a managed care organization and a New York City Department of Health asthma control program
Wilson Wang, MD, MPH, MPA, Veronica N. Uzoebo, EdD, Hannah Seoh, MPH, MS, Minal Badami, MHA, Jennifer Gonyea, MPH, MBA, Teodora Evtimova, MS, MBA, Gretchen Van Wye, PhD, Miryam Sosa, RN, Andrew Goodman, MD, MPH and Jay Schechtman, MD
10:45am
Economic burden of chronic fatigue syndrome in Georgia
Jin- Mann S. Lin, PhD, Stephen Resch, PhD, Dana J. Brimmer, PhD, MPH, Stephen Kennedy, PhD, Nancy Burstein, PhD and Carol Simon, PhD
11:00am
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Total Hip Arthroplasty with Minimally Invasive Surgery
José Luis Navarro Espigares, PhD, Prof, Mgr, Elisa Hernandez Torres, Pedro González de la Flor, MD, PhD, Jose Luis Ruiz Arranz, Dr, Leticia Palma Zamora and José Aureliano Martín Segura, PhD, Prof
        
11:15am
Quantifying the episode-related costs of AHRQ's prevention quality indicators
Kenton J. Johnston, MPH, MS, MA, William Westerfield, MA, Douglas Biddle, BS, Franklin Harrison, BS, Soyal Momin, MS, MBA and Robert Mandel, MD
     
11:30am
Effects of Economic Cycles and Job Insecurity on Depression in the U.S.: 1998-2007
Anne Libby, PhD, Vahram Ghushchyan, PhD, William Padula, MS, R. Brett McQueen, MA and Jonathan Campbell, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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