Martin McKee is a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has published extensively on health and health policy in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Judith Healy is a Senior Research Fellow with the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and honorary Senior Lecturer in Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has published extensively on health and social policy, including Health Care Systems in Transition prof...