Eleven contributions to the following themes are published: (1) Interesting aspects of the anti-tobacco policy in CR, (2) An analysis of the proposal of the act on public health insurance presented in 2000, (3) Legal framework of transplantational medicine in Germany, (4) Medical chambers as a subject of public administration, (5) An influence of the health care system on the patient-doctor relationship, (6) Health aspects of the quality of life of the elderly with different forms of institutionalized care, (7) New approaches to public finance and to programmes of non-profit organizations, (8) Demand for health or demand for health security, (9) An evaluation of the outcomes and processe of health policy in the approaches of WHO and OECD, (10) Public interest and aging, (11) Financing and reimburcements of health care