title: Public trust in health care: a comparison of Germany, The Netherlands, and England and Wales.
abstract: This article describes public trust in health care in three European countries. Public trust is a generalised attitude, influenced by people's experiences in contacts with representatives of institutions, in its turn influencing how people enter these contacts. In general, people in Germany have less trust in health care, while people in England and Wales have the highest trust levels. Cultural differences between the three countries could be an important source of differences. That makes public trust a less straightforward candidate for use as indicator of the future oriented dimension of user views in an international, comparative performance framework.
authors.affiliation: NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands. e.vanderschee@nivel.nl
authors.forename: Evelien
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van der Schee
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calnan
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schnee
authors.forename: Peter P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Groenewegen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011639:Public Opinion; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D035502:Trust