In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe
have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects …

The past 23 years of post-socialist restructuring of health system funding and management
patterns has brought many changes to small Balkan markets, putting them under increasing …

Background Ukraine, one of the largest states formed on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is
widely perceived as a country that has lost its opportunities. Being devastated by corruption …

This chapter reviews topics related to the demand for health insurance, including the
question of how choice of health insurance should be structured for consumers. After the first …

In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends
in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the …

Background: Serbia, as the largest market of the Western Balkans, has entered
socioeconomic transition with substantial delay compared to most of Eastern Europe. Its …

Welfare state theories tend to use concepts of clustering for defining the affiliation of national
social security systems to overarching worlds of welfare. A closer look at the transformation …

Long‐term care in Central and South‐Eastern Europe (CSEE) has to date been largely
neglected in the social policy literature. This article provides an examination of the context …

Although the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) was meant to bring Europeans
together, this study shows that it is amplifying social inequalities across regions and classes …

We evaluate the development of insurance markets in 18 post-communist European
countries over a 10-year period. In doing so, we estimate static and dynamic models to test …