If plans to modernise Europe's healthcare infrastructure are to be sustained, new ways of financing it will have to be found. The PFI model has been seriously derailed by the recession, but new forms of public-private partnership – already being tried out in other European countries – may...

So-called “public programs” in U.S. health care pervasively contract with private entities. The contracting does not merely involve the purchase of drugs, devices, information technology, insurance, and medical care. Rather, government agencies are increasingly outsourcing decisions about...

"Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on...