Towards Sustainable Health Care Systems: Strategies in Health Insurance Schemes in France, Germany, Japan And the Netherlands a Comparative Study

by Klaus-Dirk Henke

This study compares four countries which all have social health insurance systems based on the Bismarckian France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. The study compares the institutional and organizational framework of social health insurance, focuses on the funding of social health and analyses different strategies in the provision and purchasing of health services and presents ways towards more sustainable health care systems.

98 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2004