Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many enjoyed comprehensive free health care, established with the Communist takeovers and transition to planned economies, as they moved from an agrarian to an industrialised system. This book traces their beginnings and development, and offers comparisons between each of them as well as with the West.
Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many enjoyed comprehensive free health care, and this book traces their beginnings and development, and offers comparisons between each of them as well as with the West.
1. The Revolution in Health Care
2. The USSR
3. Bulgaria
4.
Czechoslovakia
5. German Democratic Republic
6. Hungary
7. Poland
8. Romania
9. International Economic Links within Comecon
Michael Kaser was Reader Emeritus in Economics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, a Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford, and was Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He wrote extensively on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
