Patient payments - painful but indispensable tool of health policy: A review of a book by Elka Atanasova titled „Patient Payments in the Health Sector`

Abstract

This is a review of a book by Elka Atanasova titled `Patient Payments in the Health Sector`, which is the first comprehensive study in Bulgaria of patient payments: their overall context, theoretical underpinning, effects and importance as well as application in different health systems in 14 European countries.