Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--King's College, London, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
Part I. Unravelling the demand side of public health systems : the patient as a worker or as a consumer? -- Healthcare as a benefit under social security coordination and the worker as a patient -- Healthcare as a service under Article 56 TFEU and the patient as a consumer -- The patients' mobility case law Acquis as a source of silent harmonization -- Healthcare provision for the (migrant) patient on the basis of secondary law : from coordination to harmonization or both? -- Part II. Unravelling the 'supply side' of public health systems : the regulatory and redistributory state under EU law -- The regulatory state and the free establishment of healthcare providers -- The state as insurer and/or purchaser of healthcare and the rules on competition