1: Introduction
1: Worldwide Innovations in Health Insurance Reform
2: New Approaches in Extending Health Care Coverage
2: New Strategies for the Formal Sector: Focus on Vietnam and Zimbabwe
3: Health Protection for Informal Sector Workers: New Approaches to a Long-Standing Problem
3: Confronting Resource Scarcity: Innovative Strategies
4: Managed Care in the United States: Its History, Forms, and Future
5: China: Innovations in Health Care Financing-Mixing Individual and Collective Responsibility
4: Refining Benefits to Meet Current Needs
6: Moving to Integrate Prevention, Curative Prevention, and Curation
7: New Benefits Dealing with Ageing Populations: Long-Term Care
8: Establishment of Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme in Japan
5: New Institutional and Administrative Frameworks
9: Should Health Care be Part of the Social Security System or a Separate Scheme?
10: Private Participation in Supporting the Social Contact in Health: New Insights from Institutional Economics
11: Mutual Benefit Societies: Solutions in Europe, North Africa, and Latin America
6: Transformation through Information Technology Systems
12: Possibilities Offered by New Information Technology
13: Building Up Telecommunications in the German Health Insurance Systems: Aims, Requirements, Barriers, Components
14: Data Protection and Data Security in Shared Care Information Systems
