Main description:

The nations of the EU have long led the world in universal health coverage. Recent economic developments have created problems ranging from inequities of care to growing numbers of uninsured - a progression analyzed by Win de Gooijer in Trends in EU Health Care Systems. His ideas may be startling, and the book is bound to be controversial. This is critical reading for health care managers and policymakers, politicians and insurors - anyone looking to Europe to understand this far-reaching evolution.

Contents:

A Changing Social Context.- Moving Along a Continuum.- Promoting and Opposing the Market.- The Arguments.- The Effects.- Consequences for Health Care Systems.- Health Care and the Economic Order.- Health Care Dynamics.- The Influence of the European Union.- Investing in Health Care.- Health Care Reforms.- The Effects.- Reflections.- The Social Context Reconsidered.- On Managing Health Care.- Epilogue.- Epilogue.