This article focuses on the changing role of the state in financing, providing and regulating health care services under the German health care system from 1970-2000. While a reduced role of the state can be observed in terms of financing, our analysis of service provision indicates inconsistent...

The aim of this publication is to provide comprehensive and concise information on public health actions funded under 2006 Call for Proposals in the framework of the Program of community action in the field of public health. The eighty seven projects presented in this report received funding in...

This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows that health status has improved rapidly in Turkey in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health spending. It describes the introduction of an ambitious Health Transformation Program in 2003 which brought universal health...