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► Past conferences on health and ageing

► The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance on health and ageing

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Financing Long Term-Care in Europe—Institutions, Markets and Models
Edited by Joan Costa-Font and Christophe Courbage, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2011.

Composed of 16 chapters from the main experts in the field (including leading academics, the OECD, Swiss Re and civil servants), this book examines the potential cooperation and different forms of partnership between state, market and societal stakeholders in the financing of LTC. It not only offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place for financing old age but also provides a deep analysis of both the demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover LTC needs in Europe.

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► 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.

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► Past conferences on health and ageing

7th Geneva Association Health and Ageing Conference, U.S. and French Long-term Care Insurance Markets Development, co-organised with Willis Re, 18-19 November 2010, Paris. Proceedings of the Conference have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 368, January 2011.

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.

4^th 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”, 4^th Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, Geneva, 24 August 2006. Proceedings have been published in Etudes et Dossiers No. 320, December 2006.

3^rd 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.

2^nd 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.

1^st 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.

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► Financing Long Term-Care in Europe—Institutions, Markets and Models
Edited by Joan Costa-Font and Christophe Courbage, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2011.

Composed of 16 chapters from the main experts in the field (including leading academics, the OECD, Swiss Re and civil servants), this book examines the potential cooperation and different forms of partnership between state, market and societal stakeholders in the financing of LTC. It not only offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place for financing old age but also provides a deep analysis of both the demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover LTC needs in Europe.

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

Vol. 35, No. 4, October 2010

Vol. 33, No. 4, October 2008

Vol. 31, No. 4, October 2006

Vol. 29, No. 4, October 2004

Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2003

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