Volume II, like Volume I, is a product from the PHAMEU study (Primary Health Care Activity Monitor for Europe) that was carried out from 2007 until 2010. The study has been developed and coordinated by NIVEL, the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, in collaboration with other institutes in European countries. The following members of this partnership have contributed to this book. Their names and affiliations are listed below.

• NIVEL, the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Dionne Sofia Kringos and Wienke Boerma
• University of Tartu, Estonia: Margus Lember
• IRDES, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics, Paris, France: Yann Bourgueil and Thomas Cartier
• Heinrich Heine University and University Witten/Herdecke, Düsseldorf, Germany: Stefan Wilm and Harald Abholz
• Bocconi University CERGAS, Milan, Italy: Paolo Tedeschi
• University of Tromsø, Norway: Toralf Hasvold
• Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland: Adam Windak and Marek Oleszczyk
• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: Danica Rotar Pavlič and Igor Švab
• IDIAP Jordi Gol, Barcelona, Spain: Toni Dedeu and Bonaventura Bolibar
• University of Sheffield, ScHARR & University of Leicester, United Kingdom: Allen Hutchinson and Andrew Wilson
• The PHAMEU study was co-funded by the European Commission (Directorate General SANCO).

The project was supported by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the European Forum for Primary Care, the European Public Health Association, and the European General Practice Research Network.

Experts in each country who contributed to the data and information on which this study is based, are kindly acknowledged. Their names have been listed with each country chapter. Finally, the authors are grateful to colleagues at NIVEL for their review of a previous version of the manuscript.