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Who wants to pay more taxes to improve public health care?
Author(s) -
Habibov Nazim,
Auchynnikava Alena,
Luo Rong,
Fan Lida
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.2572
Subject(s) - willingness to pay , position (finance) , ideology , health care , demographic economics , public health , public health care , public opinion , public support , empirical research , economic growth , public economics , political science , socioeconomics , business , health policy , economics , nursing , medicine , politics , finance , law , microeconomics , philosophy , epistemology
Summary We study the factors that influence willingness to pay to improve public health care in 29 post‐communist countries, Eastern and Southern Europe, and Eurasia using 2 up‐to‐date cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2010 and 2016 (N = 34 768). Three hypotheses received full degree of support through empirical analysis: increase in satisfaction with health care, university education, and higher level of wealth positively associated with willingness to pay in all regions. In comparison, having a higher level social trust and adhering to left‐leaning ideological position strengthens support for public health care in Southern Europe and Eurasia only, while having a higher level of institutional trust strengthens support for public health care in Eastern Europe and Eurasia only.