Health care systems in Europe under austerity : institutional reforms and performance / edited by Emmanuele Pavolini, Macerata University, Italy and Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

xvii, 312 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-299) and index.

Sweden : Continued Marketization within a Universalist System / Paula Blomqvist and Ulrika Winblad -- England : Health Reforms have Improved the NHS / Sean Boyle -- Spain : Quo Vadis? From Cost Containment to Structural Reforms / Eduardo Fidalgo and Juan Ventura -- Italy : A Strange NHS with its Paradoxes / Emmanuele Pavolini and Giovanna Vicarelli -- France : Squaring the Health Spending Circle? / Bruno Palier and Alban Davesne -- Germany : Mixing Rescaling, Privatization and Managerialism / Patrick Hassenteufel and Tanja Klenk -- Austria : A Health Care System Between Continuity and Gradual Changes / August Österle -- Poland : Decentralization, Privatization and Managerialization of the Healthcare System / Monika Ewa Kaminska -- The Health Care Policy Quadrilemma and Comparative Institutional Reforms / Emmanuele Pavolini, Bruno Palier and Ana M. Guillén -- The Performance of the European Health Care Systems / Emmanuele Pavolini and August Österle -- Health Care Provision : An Exploratory Analysis of Increase, Decline, Converging Trends and Driving Forces in Comparative Perspective / Ingalill Montanari and Kenneth Nelson.