CEORG December 2002 Omnibus Survey on Healthcare in Central Europe
The healthcare system and its reform: a much debated topic in the EU Accession Countries. What does the vox populi has to say about it? This was the question in the December public opinion research conducted by the Central European Opinion Research Group Foundation CEORG in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
The most satisfactory healthcare system seems to be in the Czech Republic, where 40,5% of respondents are very (3%) or fairly (37,5%) satisfied, while only 19,6% are fairly (14,3%) or very (5,3%) dissatisfied. Both in Poland and Hungary the biggest group of respondents is composed of those who are dissatisfied with the country’s healthcare system – 47,7% in Poland (29,3% fairly and 18,4% very dissatisfied) and 53,4% in Hungary (32% fairly and 21,4% very dissatisfied). The Czech Republic has the biggest amount of those that are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the healthcare system – 37,5%. In Hungary and Poland this group counts for 30% and 23% respectively.
In all three surveyed countries, the biggest group of respondents feels that in the course of last year, the situation in the quality of healthcare did not change. In Poland, a significant group of respondents (39%) thinks that the situation actually deteriorated (27,9% moderately and 11,1% strongly deteriorated). In Hungary and the Czech Republic this group is smaller, 24,3% (16,3% moderately and 8% strongly deteriorated) and 22.9% (17,3% moderately and 5,6% strongly deteriorated) respectively. In all three countries, the group of those that think that the healthcare has improved is the smallest one; it is 20.8% in the Czech Republic (2,2% strongly and 18,6% moderately improved), 17,9% in Hungary (0,3% strongly and 17,6% moderately improved) and only 9,7% in Poland (0,3% strongly and 9,4% moderately improved).
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