Perceptions of Fairness and Effectiveness in the Health-Care Systems of Different Countries (According to ISSP Data)

Abstract

An analysis of international data on opinions on how health care systems should be organized and on the ways in which care should be delivered shows that inequality in access is seen as a problem in all countries, but that Russians rank highest on this value.

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2014 the Iurii Levada Analytical Center (Levada Center) and the Interdisciplinary Academic Center of the Social Sciences (Intercenter). “Predstavleniia o spravedlivosti i effektivnosti v sistemakh zdravookhraneniia razlichnykh stran (po dannym ISSP),” Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia. Dannye. Analiz. Diskussii, nos. 1–2, January–June 2014. A publication of the Levada Center and Intercenter. Notes have been renumbered for this edition.—Ed. Translated by Kim Braithwaite. Translation reprinted from Sociological Research, vol. 54, no. 2. doi:10.1080/10610154.2015.1082378.

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