Book Review: Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance

Introduction PART I: THE COUNTRY CASE STUDIES 1. Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System Paula Blomqvist and Ulrika Winblad 2. England: Health Reforms have Improved the NHS Sean Boyle 3. Spain: Quo Vadis? From Cost Containment to Structural Reforms Eduardo Fidalgo and Juan Ventura 4. Italy: A Strange NHS with its Paradoxes Emmanuele Pavolini and Giovanna Vicarelli 5. France: Squaring the Health Spending Circle? Bruno Palier and Alban Davesne 6. Germany: Mixing Rescaling, Privatization and Managerialism Patrick Hassenteufel and Tanja Klenk 7. Austria: A Health Care System Between Continuity and Gradual Changes August Osterle 8. Poland: Decentralization, Privatization and Managerialization of the Healthcare System Monika Ewa Kaminska PART II: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 9. The Health Care Policy Quadrilemma and Comparative Institutional Reforms Emmanuele Pavolini, Bruno Palier and Ana M. Guillen 10. The Performance of the European Health Care Systems Emmanuele Pavolini and August Osterle 11. Health Care Provision: An Exploratory Analysis of Increase, Decline, Converging Trends and Driving Forces in Comparative Perspective Ingalill Montanari and Kenneth Nelson Conclusion