Comparative health policy: an introduction -- The context of health care -- Funding, provision, and governance … -- Setting priorities and allocating resources -- The medical profession -- Beyond the hospital: health care in the home … -- Public health -- Understanding health policy comparatively …

The paper focuses on the following question: What is known about the existence and the extent of health inequalities …, their explanations and potential ways to reduce them, by members of the lower social class, by health professionals and by … health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly refer to differences in morbidity and mortality between socio …