Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)
Call for Papers Special Issue: The Economic Impacts of Public Health Spillovers
Guest editors
Konstantinos Eleftheriou - University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Peter Nijkamp - Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands
Konstantinos Christopoulos - University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Context
Human health has important place-based characteristics. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has again articulated in the research arena the importance of the geography of public health and its consequent economic effects. While the scientific field of medical (health) geography (see for a comprehensive overview Earickson, 2009) has grown fast in recent years, the channels through which public health outcomes are transmitted and the corresponding economic consequences have not been thoroughly examined. Specifically, the spillover effects of public health outcomes are usually either examined in isolation from their economic effects or prominent attention is given to the economic aspects, whereas the interrelation of health outcomes at the spatial level are sometimes ignored.
Aims and scope
In an attempt to bridge this gap, the aim of this special issue of RSPP is to study the economic implications of public health by incorporating its spillover effects at the supra-regional, regional and sub-regional level.
There are several micro and macro pathways through which neighboring regions can affect local health (a thorough review on how the spillover effects on health outcomes are manifested at the micro-level can be found in Benjamin-Chung et al. 2017). These include but are not limited to:
An indicative but not restrictive example on how candidate-authors could approach the topic of this special issue is the study by Atasoy et al. (2017) in which the regional spillover effects of the adoption of electronic health records on healthcare costs are examined.
Relevance
Healthcare costs do not challenge only the sustainability of health systems but fiscal sustainability as well (see, for example, Christopoulos and Eleftheriou, 2020). In order to develop effective regional polices that contain negative and increase positive health externalities, one has to identify and quantify the economic impacts of health spillovers. This process may also aid in the mitigation of regional health disparities. Contributions to this special issue should serve the policy and practice aims of the journal.
Keywords: economic impact; health geography; public health; spillovers
References
Atasoy, H., Chen, P.-y., Ganju, K. (2017), The Spillover Effects of Health IT Investments on Regional Healthcare Costs, Management Science 64(6), 2515-2534.
Benjamin-Chung, J. and others (2017), Spillover Effects on Health Outcomes in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review, International Journal of Epidemiology 46(4), 1251-1276.
Christopoulos, K. and Eleftheriou, K. (2020), The Fiscal Impact of Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from the OECD Countries, Economic Analysis and Policy 67, 195-202.
Earickson, R. (2009), Medical Geography, In: Kitchin, R., Thrift, N. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, 9-20.
Manuscript submission information:
All submissions must be original and may not be under review elsewhere. All manuscripts will be submitted via the Regional Science Policy & Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/rspp/). Authors should indicate in the cover letter that the paper is submitted for consideration for publication in this special issue “The Economic Impacts of Public Health Spillovers”, otherwise, your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.
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Dear RSAI members,
We are particularly glad to invite you all to join the global regional science community for the 14th edition of the World Congress of the RSAI in Kecskemét, Hungary, from Apr. 8 through 11, 2024. The congress' main theme is "Sustainable regional economic growth: global challenges and new regional development trajectories"
The conference is jointly organized by the RSAI and the Hungarian section of ERSA (MRTT), and hosted by John Von Neumann University, courtesy of the LOC, chaired by Prof. József Kárpáti and Prof. Balázs Forman.
The meeting is open to the world-wide regional science community and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of spatial sciences.
Topics such as agglomeration economies, urban-rural relations, migration, spatial and resources allocation, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, cultural heritage, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are some of the important issues covered in the 2024 RSAI World Congress. In addition, we welcome special sessions on a number of other topics.
The congress will host countless exciting events, including special sessions and semi-plenary policy sessions. Also, we have four confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Özge Öner (Cambridge University, UK; ERSA), Prof. Eduardo Haddad, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; LARSA); Prof. Hee-Jung Jun, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea; PRSCO; and Prof. Sarah A. Low (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; NARSC).
If you are interested in organizing one or more special sessions at the World Congress, please do get in touch with the Program Chair, Andrea Caragliu (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and the congress secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) as soon as possible.
The submission portal will open on Oct. 15 and the deadline for submitting both papers and special sessions is Nov. 30, 2023. Decisions concerning the acceptance of papers and sessions will be announced by mid December, 2023. Once accepted, presenters will be able to register on the same platform used for submitting your abstracts. You will find all information related to the congress, and the link to the submission platform, at the congress website: https://regionalscience.org/2024RSAIcongress/index.html.
Thank you in advance for your attention,
We look forward to seeing you in Kecskemét!
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Volume 15, Issue 7
Pages: 1399-1665
September 2023
Issue Edited by: Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, Neil Reid
Pathbreaking trajectories: Socioeconomic and institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas
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Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, Neil Reid
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Loss and change: Culture narratives in old industrial regions in East Germany
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The economic impact of trade openness on Mexico's indigenous peoples
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Liliana Castillo-Rivero, Marine Elbakidze, Philip McCann, Frans J. Sijtsma
Endogenously driven de-peripheralization through political secession: The case of the Donbas region
Courtney V. Bower, Mark J. Minton, John I. Carruthers
Frank J. Calzonetti
Volume 15, Issue 6
1127-1397
August 2023
Samuel Amponsah Odei
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Kwame Adjei-Mantey, Millicent O. Awuku, Ruby V. Kodom
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Exploring the geographical variations and influencing factors of poverty in Nigeria
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People with disability and access to financial services: Evidence from Ghana
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Ibrahim Abu Abdulai, Ibrahim Yakubu, Amos Dangbie Dordah
Yakubu A. Zakaria, Mary Asumpta Agamba, Mordze-Ekpampo Ibrahim Musah
Senanu Kwasi Klutse, Judit Sági, Gábor Dávid Kiss
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ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (RRSA)
XIVth International Conference of the Romanian Regional Science Association
UNLOCKING REGIONAL POTENTIALS THROUGH COHESION POLICY - OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
23 - 24 November 2023 │ Bucharest, Romania
CALL FOR PAPERS: https://rrsa.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Call-for-Papers-Romanian-RRSA-2023-Conference.pdf
Details at www.rrsa.ro
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