V monografii rassmotreny osobennosti formirovaniya sistem organizatsii i finansirovaniya zdravookhraneniya, evolyutsiya i tipologiya modeley zdravookhraneniya v raznykh stranakh. Issledovanie posvyashcheno reformirovaniyu sistemy meditsinskogo strakhovaniya v Rossii v shirokom kontekste problem – retrospektivnyy istoricheskiy analiz, pravovoe, zakonodatel"noe regulirovanie, organizatsionno-institutsional"noe ustroystvo, sootnoshenie obyazatel"nogo i dobrovol"nogo segmentov rynka strakhovykh meditsinskikh uslug, otsenka pervykh itogov reformy meditsinskogo strakhovaniya. V knige predlozheny rekomendatsii po obespecheniyu kachestvennykh meditsinskikh uslug naseleniyu s ispol"zovaniem strakhovykh printsipov i mekhanizmov. Monografiya adresovana shirokoy chitatel"skoy auditorii, kotoruyu interesuyut nauchno-prakticheskie voprosy modernizatsii sotsial"nogo kompleksa Rossii (zdravookhraneniya), a takzhe sravnitel"nogo stranovogo analiza v etoy oblasti - nauchnym sotrudnikam, prepodavatelyam, aspirantam, studentam universitetov, kolledzhey, a takzhe spetsialistam strakhovykh kompaniy, meditsinskikh organizatsiy, sotrudnikam gosudarstvennykh struktur, kotorye razrabatyvayut i realizuyut politiku reform rossiyskogo zdravookhraneniya i meditsinskogo strakhovaniya.