title: Analyzing the evidence on European health care reforms.
abstract: Health system reform, in Europe as elsewhere, has often been influenced as much by theory and conjecture as by fact and experience. In a study published in September 1997, the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) drew together the available evidence about the health care systems in the fifty-one countries of the European region. This paper focuses on western European countries. It reviews a variety of policy strategies and then explores implications from this European experience for the formulation of U.S. health care policy.
authors.affiliation: Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Saltman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Figueras
mesh_terms: D017047:Cost Sharing; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014944:World Health Organization