Health Policy Reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republic As a Political Process

Small Transformations
The Politics of Welfare Reform - East and West.

J. M. Kovacs (editor)
Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-London, LIT 2003
available also at www.univie.ac.at/iwm/p-books.htm

Health Policy Reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republic As a Political Process (pp. 62-71)
The chapter deals with the paths of the health policy reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republics after 1989. It focuses on the political process of negotiations between key political actors, the nature of impemented measures and their impact on the management and budgetary system of the health services in both countries.