Health Reforms in South-east Europe

by Bartlett, William; Bozikov, Jadranka; Rechel, Bernd

• ISBN13: 9780230300033
• ISBN10: 0230300030
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Over the last two decades, the countries of South East Europe have engaged in far-reaching reforms of their health systems, including reforms of primary and secondary health care, new governance and funding arrangements, the privatization of health care provision, and the introduction of health insurance systems. However, comparative overviews of reform efforts in this part of Europe have been sorely lacking so far. This book addresses this shortage through the analysis of key aspects of health reforms in South East Europe, including primary health care, hospital care, health financing, decentralization and the internal and international migration of health workers. It provides a comparative analysis of health reforms and health workforce mobility in the region, and includes contributions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. The book will be of interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, medical practitioners and policy-makers.

Author Biography

WILLIAM BARTLETT Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. He was previously Professor of Social Economics at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Social Welfare and Institutional Reform in the Western Balkans (2008).
JADRANKA BOŽIKOV Head of the Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics and Director of the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
BERND RECHEL Researcher at the European Observatory on Health System and Policies, and Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. His research interests focus on health systems and policies in Europe. His publications include Migration and Health in the European Union; Investing in Hospitals of the Future; The Healthcare Workforce in Europe and Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe.