PREFACE. PART ONE: The Determinants of Health 1. Introduction 2. Inequity in Health 3. Lifestyle and Health Promotion 4. Planning Health Policy. PART TWO: Planning Health Services 5. The History of the Organisation and Financing of Services 6. Methods of Health Service Planning 7. Planning the Health Work-force 8. Planning Primary Health Care 9. Planning Pharmaceuticals 10. Planning Hospitals. PART THREE: Health Services Financing 11. Public Health Expenditure and the Economic Crisis 12. Private Health Expenditure 13. Compulsory Health Insurance. PART FOUR Controlling Costs and Securing User-friendly Services 14. Methods of Paying Providers 15. The Efficient Use of Health Resources 16. Facing up to the Future.INDEX