Strengthening health system governance : better policies, stronger performance / edited by Scott Greer, Matthias Wismar and Josep Figueras.

PART 1. TAPIC a framework for analyzing and improving health system governance. : -- 1. Introduction: Strengthening governance amidst changing governance. -- 2. Governance: A Framework. -- 3. Strategies for Policy Success: Achieving "Good" Governance. -- 4. Measuring governance: Accountability, management and research. -- 5. Policy lessons for health governance. -- PART 2. Sectoral case studies on health system governance. : -- 6. Governing competitive insurance market reform: Case studies from the Netherlands and Switzerland. -- 7. The governance of public-private Partnerships: Lessons from the UK and Germany. -- 8. The governance of coverage in health systems: England's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. -- 9. Understanding the role of governance in the pharmaceutical sector: from laboratory to patient. -- 10. Intergovernmental governance for health: Federalism, decentralization, and communicable diseases. -- 11. Austerity: Reforming systems under financial pressure. -- 12. Issues of governance in implementing complex policy innovations: Lessons from primary healthcare reforms in Estonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. -- 13. Hospital governance: Policy capacity and reform in England, France, and Italy.