Are citizens of the world satisfied with their health?

Health Affairs

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Clifton, Jim ^a   Gingrich, Newt ^b,c  

^a Gallup Inc   (United States)

^b US House of Representatives   (United States)

^c Center for Health Transformation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 35148881569     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.w545     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. See C. Schoen et al., "Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients with Health Problems in Six Countries," Health Affairs 24 (2005): w509-w525 (published online 3 November 2005; 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.509);
2. C. Schoen et al., "Primary Care and Health System Performance: Adults' Experiences in Five Countries," Health Affairs 23 (2004): w487-w503 (published online 28 2004; 10.1377/hlthaff.w4.487);
3. R.J. Blendon et al., "Confronting Competing Demands to Improve Quality: A Five-Country Hospital Survey," Health Affairs 23, no. 3 (2004): 119-135;
4. and R.J. Blendon et al., "Common Concerns amid Diverse Systems: Health Care Experiences in Five Countries," Health Affairs 22, no. 3 (2003): 106-121.
5. A detailed description of the polling methodology is available in Appendix 1, online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff. 26.5.w545/DC2.
6. Specific confidence intervals associated with the exhibits are available online in Appendices 6-9; ibid. (The remaining appendices are mentioned in the specific exhibits to which they apply.)
7. Appendix 2 online contains full questions and response lists; ibid.
8. G.F. Anderson et al., "Health Spending in the United States and the Rest of the Industrialized World," Health Affairs 24, no. 4 (2005): 903-914.
9. World Health Organization, World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health (Geneva: WHO, 2006).
10. J. Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689; repr., ed. P. Laslett, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 297.