Health Reforms in South East Europe

Over the last two decades the countries of South East Europe have engaged in far-reaching reforms of their health systems. However, overviews of reform efforts in this part of Europe have been sorely lacking. This book addresses this shortage through the analysis of key aspects of health reforms and health workforce mobility in South East Europe.

RANISLAVKA ANDRI? Head of the Department of Planning and Analysis, Health Insurance Fund of Montenegro JAKOB CEGLAR Advisor to the General Director of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia ALEKSANDAR D AKULA Research Fellow, Department for Social Medicine and Health Care Organization, Andrija tampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia GEORGE BOULTON Independent consultant on international health policy, planning, financing and management REINHARD BUSSE Professor of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology and Associate Head for Research Policy, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Germany ANTONIYA DIMOVA Associate Professor, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria DONCHO DONEV Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia MILA GEORGIEVA Assistant Professor, Department of Health Economics and Management, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria, and Head of the Department of International Programmes, Analysis and Planning, University Hospital St. Marina, Varna, Bulgaria IVAN JEKIC Hospital manager and health service management consultant based in Belgrade VESNA JURE A Professor of School Medicine, Head of the Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care and Vice-Dean for New Graduate Programmes, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia DRA EN JURKOVI? State Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Croatia, and Epidemiologist, Institute of Public Health, Lika-Senj county, Croatia MILICA KATI? Professor of Family Medicine and Head of the Department of Family Medicine, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia ANNETTE KATRAVA Hospital manager, health service management consultant and consultant in quality management and accreditation in health care, based in Belgrade NICHOLAS KOUMPIS international consultantspecializing in project management, procurement and biomedical engineering in the health sector VLADIMIR LAZAREVIK Researcher, Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia JELENA MARINKOVI? Professor of Medical Statistics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Informatics School of Medicine, Belgrade University, Republic of Serbia DORJAN MARU I? Minister of Health, Slovenia MIROSLAV MASTILICA Associate Professor, Department of Medical Sociology and Health Economics, Andrija tampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia TANJA MATE Consultant to the general manager of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia ALEKSANDAR MILOJKOVIC Physician and health service management consultant based in Belgrade EMANUELA MOUTAFOVA Professor and Head of the Department of Health Economics and Management, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria MIROSLAV OBROVACKI Manager and health service management consultant based in Serbia DIANA OGNYANOVA Research Fellow, Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Germany ?UR?ICA OSTOJI? Responsible for monitoring the implementation of compulsory health insurance at the Health Insurance Fund of Montenegro. MIROSLAV POPOV ( ) was Professor, Department of Health Care Economics and Management, Varna University of Medicine, Bulgaria VALENTINA PREVOLNIK RUPEL Advisor to the Minister of Health of Slovenia and Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Primorska, Slovenia MARIA ROHOVA Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Economics and Management, Varna University of Medicine, Bulgaria SILVIA GABRIELA SCINTEE Public Health and Health Management Consultant and General Deputy Director, National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development, Bucharest, Romania SNE ANA SIMI? Professor of Social Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Belgrade University, Republic of Serbia SELMA OGORI? Assistant Professor in Public Health, Andrija tampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Coordinator of the Croatian Healthy Cities and Counties Network, Croatia CRISTIAN VLADESCU Professor in Public Health and Management, University of Medicine and Pharmacy 'Victor Babes' Timisoara and General Director, National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development, Bucharest, Romania LUKA VON?INA Head of the Department for Drugs and Medical Products, Croatian Institute for Health Insurance, Croatia