Health care systems are designed to meet the health care needs of target populations. There are a wide variety of health care systems around the world. In some countries, the health care system has evolved and has not been planned, whereas in others a concerted effort has been made by...

Human development and social cohesion are not only important component, but essential premises and powerful drivers of sustainable development also.

Sociological reflection on medicine and health is based, on the one hand, on the multidimensional reality of the „health" phenomenon and on the other hand, on the old sense of sociology which is, according to its founders, a science of welfare and human freedom. In this respect, the problems...

Social contributive insurance systems which are based on the repartition principle between generations are strongly influenced by the demographic evolutions.