The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest: Health equity Health and economic development Markets for health care Economics of prevention and health promotion Economics of social care Pharmaceutical economics Health care providers and clients Hospital economics and management Economic evaluation in health care Quality and cost of health care Health care management Public health and health care provision Health care financing, health insurance and reimbursement Experimental health economics Health care reforms and health policy Health econometrics and methodological issues Quality of life (QoL) and preference measurement Welfare economics Frontiers of health economics