Guardians of public health

Doctors and mutual health insurance companies during the interbellum: the Antwerp example

To understand our current health insurance system and its problems, it's important to know what preceded it. A crucial period for the two key players in this story, namely doctors and mutual health insurance funds, was the interwar period. The organizational evolution of both groups and the conflicts between them during that period were strongly influenced by the often turbulent political context in which the first legislation on health insurance was established. This book also addresses the previously undocumented attempts by activists to establish their own health insurance system in Flanders during the First World War.

Karel Van Ackter in collaboration with Jo Deferme and Luc Vandeweyer
Amsab-ISG, Ghent, 2005, 224 p., ill., soft cover