Table of Contents

Making sense of health system responses to economic crisis
The crisis and its implications for household financial security, government resources and health expenditure
Changes to public funding for the health system
Changes to health coverage
Changes to health service planning, purchasing and delivery
The health effects of the crisis
The impact of the crisis on health systems and health: Lessons for policy

Appendix

About the Author

Sarah Thomson, WHO Regional Office for Europe, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science

Josep Figueras, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Tamás Evetovits, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Matthew Jowett, WHO (Geneva)

Philipa Mladovsky, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science

Anna Maresso, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Jonathan Cylus, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Marina Karanikolos, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Office for Europe