1: Introduction; 1: Worldwide Innovations in Health Insurance Reform; 2: New Approaches in Extending Health Care Coverage; 2: New Strategies for the Formal Sector: Focus on Vietnam and Zimbabwe; 3: Health Protection for Informal Sector Workers: New Approaches to a Long-Standing Problem; 3: Confronting Resource Scarcity: Innovative Strategies; 4: Managed Care in the United States: Its History, Forms, and Future; 5: China: Innovations in Health Care Financing—Mixing Individual and Collective Responsibility; 4: Refining Benefits to Meet Current Needs; 6: Moving to Integrate Prevention, Curative Prevention, and Curation; 7: New Benefits Dealing with Ageing Populations: Long-Term Care; 8: Establishment of Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme in Japan; 5: New Institutional and Administrative Frameworks; 9: Should Health Care be Part of the Social Security System or a Separate Scheme?; 10: Private Participation in Supporting the Social Contact in Health: New Insights from Institutional Economics; 11: Mutual Benefit Societies: Solutions in Europe, North Africa, and Latin America; 6: Transformation through Information Technology Systems; 12: Possibilities Offered by New Information Technology; 13: Building Up Telecommunications in the German Health Insurance Systems: Aims, Requirements, Barriers, Components; 14: Data Protection and Data Security in Shared Care Information Systems