Publisher's Synopsis
This book shows how health care questions are becoming part of the main issues in the European Community. It focuses on the European - and further the American - perspective of the realisation of a common market for health care. Important legal and ethical problems are described and the issues of quality of care and the position of the patient within Europe are also highlighted. The discussion of pharmaceuticals is controversial and reveals the conflicts of interests between producers and consumers of medical drugs. The book discusses the implications of "Europe 1992" for health care managers and health care professionals. Many questions relating to public and private health insurance are still latent and one of the purposes of this book is to raise such questions, and propose answers for the future of the European health systems and its different sectors after 1992.
