""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Overview and perspectives""; ""Part I Empirical facts on health expenditure""; ""Chapter 1 Basic patterns in national health expenditure""; ""Chapter 2 An overview of health financing patterns and the way forward in the WHO African Region""; ""Part II Reaching universal coverage""; ""Chapter 3 Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation""; ""Chapter 4 Determinants of achieving universal coverage of health care: an empirical analysis""
""Chapter 5 Impact of risk sharing on the attainment of health system goals""""Chapter 6 The impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment A comparative analysis of three African countries ""; ""Part III Insurance-based approaches""; ""Chapter 7 Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia""; ""Chapter 8 Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness""
""Chapter 9 Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems""""Chapter 10 Risk-pooling necessary but not sufficient?""; ""Chapter 11 Scaling up community health insurance: Japan's experience with the 19th century Jyorei scheme""; ""Chapter 12 The reform of the rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China: interim experience in 14 pilot counties""; ""Chapter 13 A framework for the analysis of best practices in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P.R. China""
""Chapter 14 Social health insurance in developing countries: A continuing challenge""""Chapter 15 Social health insurance: Key factors affecting the transition towards universal coverage""; ""Chapter 16 Key performance indicators for the implementation of social health insurance""; ""Chapter 17 Vietnam The development of national health insurance""; ""Chapter 18 Health financing reform in Kenya assessing the social health insurance proposal""; ""Part IV Resource allocation and cost-containment concerns in health financing policy""
""Chapter 19 Clarifying efficiency-equity trade-offs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries""""Chapter 20 Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment: How successful are they in high-income countries?""