Product Description: This book explores the key challenges facing Austria's public health system. Set firmly in the context of the history, scope, functions and responsibilities of public health in developed countries, it examines how the Austrian system has developed and adapted over the last 50 years to the benefit of the population...read more

Product Description: High levels of pathogen resistance are rendering current antibiotics obsolete. Coupled with insufficient investment in discovering new treatments, multidrug-resistant infections are an increasingly urgent public health concern.To curb the growth of antibiotic resistance and prevent major morbidity and mortality from multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, the overuse of antibiotics must be addressed and research and development for antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action actively promoted...read more

Product Description: There is a fundamental contradiction at the core of health policy in the EU that makes it difficult to draw a line between EU and Member State responsibilities. This raises a number of difficult questions for policy makers and practitioners as they struggle to interpret both 'hard' and 'soft' laws at EU and Member State level and to reconcile tensions between economic and social imperatives in health care...read more

Product Description: Health care systems across the European Union face a common challenge: the high cost of health care. Governments strive to ensure that cost pressures do not undermine values such as universal coverage and equitable financing and access...read more

Product Description: 'A genuinely fantastic resource; such a rare text that provides such factual information for students and lecturers. A rich review of the subject areas from across Europe. Fantastic text' - Chris Kelly, Programme Leader, Bournemouth University...read more

Product Description: In recent years there has been much debate surrounding the future of the welfare state in Europe, the complex factors influencing reform, and the extent to which responses to pressures on welfare could lead to irreversible systemic changes in social policy...read more

Product Description: The health care system in Canada is much-touted in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to an examination of its actual administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components that make up health care in Canada today...read more

Product Description: This special double issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is a collection of papers presented at meetings held by the European Health Care Systems Discussion group--a forum for health system scholars from throughout Europe who meet regularly to discuss intra- and intercountry analyses of health care system reform...read more

Product Description: 'This thoughtful and comprehensive book represents the best work I have seen on the current situation concerning medication policies in the EU. It is not just that this is a very up-to-date compendium of facts and data across a wide variety of domains that impact on pharmaceutical regulation...read more

Product Description: The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What have been the major trends in entrepreneurial behaviour and regulation in European health care? To what degree do approaches to regulation and entrepreneurialism differ amongst subsectors and countries across Europe? What does the evidence show about successes and failures, and which successful options are open to policy-makers? A wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives have been introduced within European health care systems during the last decade...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contemporary Greek society is characterized by an all-embracing trend for reform. This task, however, is constrained by problems of Greek polity rooted in the historical and political culture. This text explores the important facets of divergence between Greece and the EU, examining the process through which they affect the relative performance of the country in the economic, social, political and international relations fronts, together with significant attempts to modernize and rationalize internal and external policies and structures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The role and status of public health in Europe has become increasingly recognized, not only in individual countries but also in the policies of the EU. This book is a critical account of the present structures and policies of member countries and how policies have evolved within the European Commission...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study provides an overview of health policies and cost containment measures in the EU member states during the last 15 years. It begins with two background sections: a review of some aspects of the current systems of health care in the European Union, and a review of recent expenditure trends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work aims, in the aftermath of Maastricht, and in the context of the Inter-Governmental Conference of 1996-97, to reflect on questions of European Union strategy on employment, military protectionism, the place of Central and Eastern Europe, and, most importantly, on its own raison d'etre...read more

Product Description: This work aims, in the aftermath of Maastricht, and in the context of the Inter-Governmental Conference of 1996-97, to reflect on questions of European Union strategy on employment, military protectionism, the place of Central and Eastern Europe, and, most importantly, on its own raison d'etre...read more

Product Description: Governments have long been worried about the rising costs of health care. Virtually, all have taken steps to try and keep costs under control. But it is by no means clear that the types of measures so far taken can solve the problem in the long run...read more

Product Description: This work is based on a report prepared for the European Commission. It provides a survey of the main determinants of current health status in the European Union, the organization of health services and the issues that Member States have to address in framing policies for the future...read more