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The cost of health system change: public discontent in five nations

Overview of attention for article published in Health Affairs, May 1999
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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7 news outlets
policy
6 policy sources
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1 X user
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2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
The cost of health system change: public discontent in five nations
Published in
Health Affairs, May 1999
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.18.3.206
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Abstract

Many nations have undergone changes in health care financing and services. The public notices policy changes in health care and frequently bears new and unexpected costs or barriers to care unwillingly. This paper presents data from surveys of about 1,000 adults conducted during April-June 1998 in each of five countries--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States--to measure public satisfaction with health care. In no nation is a majority content with the health care system. Different systems pose different problems: In systems with universal coverage, dissatisfaction is with the level of funding and administration, including queues. In the United States, the public is primarily concerned with financial access.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Thailand 1 1%
Bangladesh 1 1%
Unknown 80 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 16%
Researcher 10 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Other 8 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 8%
Other 18 22%
Unknown 18 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 22%
Social Sciences 14 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 25 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 81. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2021.
All research outputs
#642,078
of 32,824,291 outputs
Outputs from Health Affairs
#1,247
of 7,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#268
of 51,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Affairs
#1
of 17 outputs
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