Textbook:
Blank, R.H. and Burau, V. (2010). Comparative Health Policy, 3rd Edition. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
Others:
Cutler, D.M. (2002), ‘Equality, efficiency, and market fundamentals: the dynamics of international medical-care reform’, Journal of Economic Literature, 40(3): 881-906
Gostin, L.O. and M. Powers. 2006. What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives. Health Affairs, vol 25. (4): 1053-60.
Hassenteufel P. and Palier B. (2007), Towards Neo-Bismarckian Health Care States? Comparing Health Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems, in Social Policy & Administration, vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 574-596.
Jegers, Marc, Katrien Kesteloot, Diana De Graeve and Willem Gilles : A typology for provider payment systems in health care, 2002. Health Policy, 60 (3):255-273.
Magnussen J, Saltman R, Vrangb?k K and P Martinussen (2009), "The Nordic model of health care." In Magnussen J, Vrangb?k K and Saltman R (eds): Nordic health care systems. Recent reforms and current policy challenges. London. Open University Press.
Propper. C. (2012), ‘Competition, incentives and the English NHS’, Health Economics, 21(1): 33-40
Rothgang H, Cacace M, Frisina L, et al. (2010) The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Coutries. Chippenham: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 2, 3 and 4.
Schmid, A. et al. (2010) Explaining Health Care System Change: Problem Pressure and the Emergence of “Hybrid” Health Care Systems, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 35(4): 455-86.
Steinmo S and Watts J (1995) It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20(2): 329-72.
Toth, F. (2010), Healthcare policies over the last 20 years: Reforms and counter-reforms, in ?Health Policy?, vol. 95, n. 1, pp. 82-89.
Van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M. et al. : Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries , 2003. Health Policy, (65):75-89.
Van de Ven, W.P.M.M. and F.T. Schut (2008), ‘Universal mandatory health insurance in the Netherlands: a model for the United States?’, Health Affairs, 27(3): 771-781
Wilsford, D. (1994), Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a Big Way, in Journal of Public Policy, 14, 3, pp. 251-283.