Health affairs
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Health system reform, in Europe as elsewhere, has often been influenced as much by theory and conjecture as by fact and experience. In a study published in September 1997, the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) drew together the available evidence about the health care systems in the fifty-one countries of the European region. ⋯ It reviews a variety of policy strategies and then explores implications from this European experience for the formulation of U. S. health care policy.