This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. More than 30 scholars and policy makers from various parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory. Real world examples of policy making are used to lay out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. This text therefore provides an authoratative introduction to a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy.

Author Biography

Richard Saltman is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, and a consultant to the Health Systems Analysis unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen. Josep Figueras is Acting Regional Officer in the Health Systems Analysis unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Constantino Sakellarides is Director-General for Health in the Ministry of Health in Portugal. He was previously Director of Health Policy and Services Department at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.