Subject(s): Health system, decentralization-recentralization -- Medical policy, Italy, National health services, Denmark, Public health administration, Decentralization, Netherlands, Political planning, Comparative government -- Health system, decentralization and change : Health system in Europe, territorial dimensions of health systems, decentralization and recentralization in European NHSs, understanding continuity and change -- Explaining health system decentralization and recentralization : Public policy analysis, institutional settings, intergovernmental relations and context, ideational and institutional bricolage -- Health system decentralization and recentralization in Italy : Establishment of NHS under weak decentralization, NPM and fiscal federalism to force, administrative decentralization, institutional bricolage in Italian NHS -- Health system decentralization and recentralization in Denmark : Establishment of a highly decentralized NHS -- Ideas, discourse, institution and change : Contrasting Italy and Denmark, policy implications- reconciling diversity and equity