Does corruption undermine trust in health care? Results from public opinion polls in Croatia (CROSBI ID 250814)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Radin, Dagmar
engleski
Does corruption undermine trust in health care? Results from public opinion polls in Croatia
Health and health care provision are one of the most important topics in public policy, and often a highly debated topic in the political arena. The importance of considering trust in the health care sector is highlighted by studies showing that trust is associated, among others, with poor self-related health, and poorer health outcomes. Similarly, corruption has shown to create economic costs and inefficiencies in the health care sector. This is particularly important for a newly democratized country such as Croatia, where a policy responsive government indicates a high level of quality of democracy (Roberts, 2009) and where a legacy of corruption in the health care sector has been carried over from the previous regime. In this study, I assess the relationship between health care corruption and trust in public health care and hypothesize that experience with health care corruption as well as perception of corruption has a negative effect on trust in public care facilities. Data were collected in two surveys, administered in 2007 and 2009 in Croatia. Experience with corruption and salience with corruption has a negative effect on trust in public health care in the 2007 survey, but not in the 2009 survey. While the results are mixed, they point to the importance of further studying this relationship.
Croatia, Public opinion, Health care, Corruption, Trust, Elections
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Podaci o izdanju
98
2013.
46-53
objavljeno
0277-9536
10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.033
Povezanost rada
Politologija