[Willingness of Warsaw inhabitants to cooperate with health service. II. Evaluation of health and retirement security].
Providing citizens with health security is one of the main challenges for health policy. For the effective modifying the health an social care system it is very important to recognize how citizens themselves perceived their health and retirement assurance. The article presents the analysis of assessment of health care system, out-of-pocket payments for treatment, and retirement system by Warsaw inhabitants in relation to demographic characteristics and health indicators. Data were collected using not-addressed questionnaire. Our findings indicated that women, people aged 30-64 years, those having vocational education and unemployed, the others out of work as well as employed more negatively assessed health care system in comparison to the other demographic groups. The youngest and oldest people, those having elementary education and those who were economically inactive relatively frequently declared bearing very high expenses for treatment. The retirement system was more negatively assessed by women, people under 45 years, unemployed and the others out of work. The analysis of the relationship between perceived health and out-of-pocket payments for treatment and selected health indicators showed that people, who positively assessed existing health care and declared low expenses for treatment, higher evaluated their health, less frequently stayed at home because of ill-health, less frequently were in contact with physician and rarely were treated in hospital. Such differences were not noted (except one) for retirement security.
Zakład Promocji Zdrowia i Szkolenia Podyplomowego Narodowego Instytutu Zdrowia Publicznego--Państwowego Zakładu Higieny w Warszawie. psupranowicz@pzh.gov.pl
Piotr
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Supranowicz
Mirosław J
MJ
Wysocki
Justyna
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Car
Anna
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Debska
Anita
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Gebska-Kuczerowska
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009313:National Health Programs; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012179:Retirement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012943:Social Security / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data