Funding health care: an introduction -- Funding health care: taxation and the alternatives -- Social health insurance financing -- Health financing reforms in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Private health insurance and medical savings accounts: theory and experience -- Voluntary health insurance in the European Union -- User charges for health care -- Informal health payments in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: issues, trends and policy implications -- Lessons on the sustainability of health care funding from low-and middle-income countries -- Funding long-term care: the public and private options -- Strategic resource allocation and funding decisions -- Funding health care in Europe: weighing up the options

1. Medical care -- Europe -- Finance
2. Medicine -- Europe -- Finance
3. Federal aid to medical care research -- Europe
4. Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Europe
5. Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- Europe
6. Financing
7. Organized -- Europe