Ocena stopnia gotowości pacjentów do współpłacenia za świadczenia opieki zdrowotnej

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to learn more about readiness to pay for specialist health services and to learn about the acceptable level of co-payments through the opinions of anonymous respondents. A questionnaire was developed to conduct the survey and collect the data. The questionnaire was posted on an internet website and the respondents chose an appropriate answer variant. All questions were closed ones. The database was created in Excel. The analysis included 527 completed questionnaires. The analysis of the data collected identified the amount of acceptable co-payments for specialist medical consultations. According to the respondents, the co-payment amount should be equal for everyone, and privileged social groups should include only disabled and chronically ill people. The willingness to co-pay was declared most often by those with a higher monthly net income per person in a household and with a higher and secondary education. The study has shown that younger people accepted the subsidies more than the elderly. Due to the fact that younger people were the most represented in the data the least numerous declared level of education was basic education while the majority of respondents were urban residents, hence the results illustrated a number of essential and interesting observations. However, they cannot be applied as generalizations, although they inspire further expansion of the scope of the data collected and the conducting of further analyzes.