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Like every year, the Journées d'Economie de Santé (JES or Health Economy meeting) brings together a number of highly respected speakers focusing on a theme that is traditionally devoted to public health evaluation and medical-economic aspects of health care and health care coverage policies.
For the first time, the 9th JES, which was held on June 4, 2008, enlarged its scope taking as its theme the links between globalisation and health and their potential impact in France in order to gain a better understanding of the outlook for our health system.
While the French health system is essentially defined by national policies, it is also dependent on the global environment, and the economic activities devoted to it – healthcare products or services– are both produced and consumed internationally.
With the aim of supporting and making our health care system more efficient, the first part of the meeting provided an overview of global health, while the presentations and round table in the second part was designed to measure the impact of these changes on healthcare providers and the healthcare system in France as a whole.
In his conclusion, Elie Cohen, economist at the CNRS, invited participants to reflect on what he called "the passage from one world to another, a new world in which, unless we can "play a positive role in the economy of understanding at the dawn of the XXIst century", France will be unable to maintain its current level. |
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