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Introduction -- Health financing and coverage arrangements -- Characteristics of basic primary health care coverage -- Regulation of health insurance markets in countries with multiple insurance funds -- Consumer choice and competition between health insurers offering basic primary health care coverage -- Interventions of the public sector to ensure coverage of high-risk or low-income people in non-NHN systems -- Protection against excessive out-of-pocket payments -- Over the basic health care covergae -- Financing health care -- Health care delivery -- Organisations of health care supply -- Payment of health care providers -- User choice and competition among providers -- Regulation of health care supply -- Price/free regulation -- Regulation and monitoring of health provider activity -- Co-ordination of care -- Governance and resources allocation -- Degree of decentralisation of decision-making -- Definition of health care budget and pressure for cost-containment -- Priority setting and public health targets -- Patient's rights and involvement in health care systems -- Conclusions -- Annexes -- References

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