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The Economics of Healthcare in an Ageing Society: Global Trends

Social Sciences Conference Jueves, 27 de febrero 2025, 19:00 horas Madrid

Información general:

Venue: Fundación Ramón Areces - salón de actos. Calle Vitruvio, 5. 28006. Madrid.

Free attendance until full capacity is reached. Prior online registration is required. Simultaneous interpretation.

The auditorium is equipped with a magnetic loop system.

Organized by:

Fundación Ramón Areces y London School of Economics (LSE)

Speaker/s:

Professor Alistair McGuire - Head of Department and Chair of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy at the LSE

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La economía de la sanidad en una sociedad que envejece: tendencias mundiales (ESP)

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As we continue to live longer, how can healthcare systems provide quality care on a sustainable economic basis? This conference will outline global trends in health care, drawing on economic analysis to provide an understanding of the complex nature of healthcare policy design and implementation, public and private healthcare provision as well as why data is increasingly important in setting policy for healthcare..

"The Ramón Areces Foundation is not responsible for the opinions, comments or statements made by the people who participate in its activities".

Thursday, 27 February

18:30 h.

19:00 h.

Welcome and presentation

Miguel Jerez Méndez
Fundación Ramón Areces.

Adam Austerfield
Centro Cañada Blanch de la LSE y de LSE IDEAS.

19:10 h.

The Economics of Healthcare in an Ageing Society: Global Trends

Alistair McGuire
Head of Department and Chair of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy at the LSE .

Alistair McGuire

Professor Alistair McGuire is Head of Department and Chair of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy at the LSE. Prior to this he was Professor of Economics at City University, London after being a tutor in Economics at the University of Oxford. Professor McGuire has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, the University of York, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

He has acted as an advisor to a number of governments and governmental bodies, including the United Kingdom government, the UK Competition Commission, the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), the German Institut fur Qualität Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG), as well as for a number of international bodies (including the World Bank, the WHO, and the IMF) and pharmaceutical and health care insurance companies.