Health care systems in eight countries: trends and challenges

ABSTRACT

"....This report, commissioned by the Health Trends Review at HM Treasury, aims to provide up-to-date information on the health care system as a point of comparison. The report includes a selection of eight countries representing the diversity of international experience of both funding and delivering health care. Denmark and Sweden represent the decentralized systems of health care funding and delivery common to Scandinavia. Germany and the Netherlands provide examples of social health insurance systems combined with private health insurance, offering universal coverage and with a mixture of public, private non-profit and for profit providers. Australia and New Zealand have predominantly tax-financed systems of health care with differing degrees of decentralization and privatization of provision...". Publication from 2002; available in pdf format.