HEALTH AND AGEING

Head of Research: Christophe Courbage

 

The research programme

 

Past conferences on health and ageing

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance on health and ageing

The five most recent newsletters

 

  

 

The Economics of New Health Technologies—incentives, organization, and financing
edited by Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage and Alistair McGuire
Oxford University Press, 2009

  

This book offers the first truly global economic analysis of health care technologies; takes the subject beyond simply economic evaluation and explores the behavioural aspects, organization and incentives for new technology developments, and the adoption and diffusion of these technologies; and is hugely topical for modern health care, relevant to issues such as nano-technology, cloning, and tissue engineering. It contains contributions from international experts including economists, health policy analysts, clinicians and social scientists.

 

 

  

The research programme

 

The Health and Ageing research programme of The Geneva Association seeks to bring together analyses, studies, and research linked to issues in health provision and the role of insurance, with an emphasis on the changing demographic structure whereby the population over 60 largely exceeds that of other groups. The key is to test new and promising ideas, linking them to related works and initiatives in the health sector and trying to find solutions for the future financing of health care.

The following issues are of particular interest:

    the impact of an ageing population on health insurance systems; 

     the effect of technology on health insurance; 
     the development of health care systems and the capitalisation issue; 
     the interaction of public and private systems in health provision; 
     the performance of health systems; 
     the health issues for an ageing population in the workplace; 
     the factors influencing health status; 
     the factors responsible for the increase in health spending; and 

     the factors that contain the increase in health cost.

back to top of page

 

Past conferences on health and ageing

 

6th Geneva Association Health and Ageing Conference, Long Term Care Insurance in Central and Eastern European Countries, jointly organised with PZU, 26-27 November 2009, Warsaw. Proceedings of the Conference have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 357, January 2010.

5th Geneva Association Health and Ageing Conference, Long Term Care – Risk Profiles, Determinants and Financing, 6-7 November 2008, London, hosted by BUPA. Proceedings of the Conference have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 348, November 2008.

Symposium on Technology, Innovation and Change in Health and Healthcare, Geneva, 18-19 October 2007, in collaboration with the Brocher Foundation and the London School of Economics. Proceedings of the symposium have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 336, November 2007.

4th Geneva Association Health and Ageing Conference on “Chronic Conditions and Insurance, Vienna, 6-7 November 2006, hosted by UNIQA. Proceedings of the Conference have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 320, December 2006.
Special session on “The Financing of the Longevity Risks”, 4th Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine SocietyGeneva, 24 August 2006. Proceedings have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 320, December 2006.
3rd Health and Ageing Conference on “Longevity – A Medical and Actuarial Challenge”, Munich, 24 November 2005. Proceedings have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 305, December 2005.
2nd Health and Ageing Conference on “Health, Ageing and Work – Strategies for the New Welfare Society in the Larger Europe”, Trieste, October 21-23, 2004. Proceedings have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 288, December 2004.

1st Health and Ageing Conference “How Medical Progress Drives Society and Insurance”, Berlin, 21-22 November 2002. Proceedings have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 264, December 2002.

back to top of page

 
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance , special issues on health

Vol. 33, No. 4, October 2008 

Vol. 31, No. 4, October 2006
Vol. 29, No. 4, October 2004

Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2003

back to top of page

 

The five most recent newsletters

 

To subscribe to the Health and Ageing Newsletter, please click here. 

For earlier issues of the newsletter, please search in the virtual library.

 

 

 
Health and Ageing No. 22  
Volume: 22, April 2010
Download this PDF
 
Health and Ageing No. 21  
Volume: 21, October 2009
Download this PDF
 
Health and Ageing No. 20  
Volume: 20, April 2009
Download this PDF
 
Health and Ageing No. 19  
Volume: 19, October 2008
Download this PDF
 
Health and Ageing No. 18  
Volume: 18, April 2008
Download this PDF
 
Health and Ageing No. 17  
Volume: 17, October 2007
Download this PDF
 


Advanced Search
 
06/04/2010
7th HEALTH AND AGEING CONFERENCE, U.S. and French Long-Term Care Insurance Market Developments
The conference, co-organised with Willis Re, will take place in Paris, on 18 and 19 November 2010.
The aim of the conference is to better understand the differences and similarities of these two major long-term care funding approaches. To see the programme click here.

Read More
 
01/04/2010
2nd CC+I SEMINAR ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH IMPACTS, hosted by Allianz Seguros do Brazil
The seminar will take place on 27 and 28 October 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brasil. The objective of the CC+I Seminars is to deepen the knowledge pool on the impacts of climate change on different regions.To see the programme click here. Call for paper, click here.
Read More
 

 
Insurance Economics SC1
Key Financial Stability Issues in Insurance
Insurance and Finance No. 6
The Geneva Association General Assembly Review 2010
The Geneva Association Annual Report 2009/2010
The Geneva Association - 53 Route de Malagnou - CH-1208 Geneva - Email: - Phone +41-22-707 66 00 - Fax +41-22-736 75 36