Acrobat Viewer 4.0 needed to view the Financial Report. A comprehensive overview of critically important international issues in health economics. Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University Health economics is an increasingly prominent 'discipline' in the evolution of health care systems around the world. The centrality of schemes developed by health economists for reform initiatives in a number of countries, and the growing importance of methodologic advances that will assist in the critical process of evaluating alternative social interventions intended to promote health, suggest that health economics is a discipline 'on the rise'. This emergence of interest in the work and results of health economics research has led to a need for new and better ways to communicate, both within the health economics community, and from that community to the public and health policy-makers.
Equity is a consideration that has tended to be neglected in the work of health economists.
Taken from the inaugural iHEA conference, this collection of papers represents a small step towards redressing this imbalance. As a centerpiece of our new strategy, iHEA's web site features a new accessible design, more information and an exciting growth path. Of course, this is just the start. The new web site is a work in progress so we are always looking for input from you, our membership. Tell us if you like something, if there are any gaps we could fill or if you just plain don't care for the changes.