This book aims to redefine the requirements of an effective care for the chronic diseases, and their difficulties of implementation; to analyze the processes allowing to reinforce quality and to contain the costs and the expenditure related to this care; and to release the dynamic processes of development of an efficient care, the organisational forms and the corresponding strategies.

Pierre Huard has worked at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille University, at the Laboratory of Economics and Sociology of Labor, CNRS, and at the Institute of Economics and Management of Health, University of Lausanne in France.