Table of Contents

Foreword

PART 1: TAPIC a framework for analyzing and improving health system governance

Chapter 1: Introduction: Strengthening governance amidst changing governance

Chapter 2: Governance: A Framework

Chapter 3: Strategies for Policy Success: Achieving “Good” Governance

Chapter 4: Measuring governance:  Accountability, management and research

Chapter 5: Policy lessons for health governance

PART 2: Sectoral case studies on health system governance

Chapter 6: Governing competitive insurance market reform: Case studies from the Netherlands and Switzerland

Chapter 7: The governance of public-private partnerships: Lessons from the UK and Germany

Chapter 8: The governance of coverage in health systems: England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Chapter 9: Understanding the role of governance in the pharmaceutical sector: from laboratory to patient

Chapter 10: Intergovernmental governance for health: Federalism, decentralization, and communicable diseases

Chapter 11: Austerity: Reforming systems under financial pressure

Chapter 12: Issues of governance in implementing complex policy innovations:  Lessons from primary healthcare reforms in Estonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina

Chapter 13: Hospital governance: Policy capacity and reform in England, France, and Italy

About the Author

Scott Greer is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA, and Senior Expert Advisor on Health Governance at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Head of the WHO European Centre for Health Policy, Belgium.

Matthias Wismar is Senior Health Policy Analyst for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Belgium.

Josep Figueras is Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Head of the WHO European Centre for Health Policy, Belgium.