Textbook:
Blank, R.H. V. Burau and E. Kuhlmann (2017). Comparative Health Policy, 5th Edition. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
Others:
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Colombo, F. and N. Tapay. (2004). Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries: The Benefits and Costs for Individuals and Health Systems. OECD Health Working Paper 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/527211067757
Cutler, D.M. (2002), ‘Equality, efficiency, and market fundamentals: the dynamics of international medical-care reform’, Journal of Economic Literature, 40(3): 881-906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/002205102760273814
Hakkinen, U et al. (2015). Towards explaining international differences in health care performance: results from the EuroHOPE project. Health Economics, 24 (suppl.2): 1-4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.3282
Jegers, Marc, Katrien Kesteloot, Diana De Graeve and Willem Gilles: A typology for provider payment systems in health care, 2002. Health Policy, 60 (3):255-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-8510(01)00216-0
Magnussen J, Saltman R, Vrangb?k K and P Martinussen (2009), "The Nordic model of health care." In Magnussen J, Vrangb?k K and Saltman R (eds): Nordic health care systems. Recent reforms and current policy challenges. London. Open University Press. London. Open University Press. http://www.euro.who.int/en/publications/abstracts/nordic-health-care-systems.-recent-reforms-and-current-policy-challenges-2009
OECD (2011). Public Long-term Care Financing Arrangements in OECD Countries. Chapter 7 in Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care. Paris: OECD. http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/47884942.pdf
OECD (2015), Fiscal sustainability of health systems: Bridging health and finance perspectives. Ch. 1-4. Paris: OECD http://www.oecd.org/publications/fiscal-sustainability-of-health-systems-9789264233386-en.htm
Rice, T et al. (2014). Challenges facing the United States of America in implementing universal coverage. Bull of the World Health Organ. 92:894–902 https://dx.doi.org/10.2471%2FBLT.14.141762
Schmid, A. et al. (2010) Explaining Health Care System Change: Problem Pressure and the Emergence of “Hybrid” Health Care Systems, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 35(4): 455-86. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2010-013
Smith, P. et al (2009). Performance measurement for health system improvement: experiences, challenges and prospects. WHO http://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/partners/observatory/publications/studies/performance-measurement-for-health-system-improvement-experiences,-challenges-and-prospects-2009
Toth, F. (2010), Healthcare policies over the last 20 years: Reforms and counter-reforms, in ?Health Policy?, vol. 95, n. 1, pp. 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.11.006
Van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M. et al. (2003). Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries. Health Policy, (65):75-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-8510(02)00118-5
Van de Ven, W.P.M.M. and F.T. Schut (2008), ‘Universal mandatory health insurance in the Netherlands: a model for the United States?’, Health Affairs, 27(3): 771-781 https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.771