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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in providing health care for the sick?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Syrian Arab Republic75.4%
2 Viet Nam58.5%
3 Spain52.6%
4 South Africa50.7%
4 United States50.7%
6 Finland49.2%
7 Canada48.9%
8 Philippines48.8%
9 Denmark47.7%
10 Tajikistan46.8%
11 Switzerland45.0%
12 Germany40.9%
13 France40.4%
14 Uzbekistan38.3%
15 Australia38.0%
16 New Zealand37.0%
17 Slovenia36.6%
18 Czech Republic35.7%
19 Netherlands35.1%
20 Norway34.2%
20 Republic of Korea34.2%
22 Dominican Republic33.0%
23 Israel31.1%
24 Japan 27.7%
25 Uruguay24.9%
26 Chile23.4%
27 Ireland19.6%
28 Hungary17.2%
29 Portugal14.8%
30 Croatia14.0%
31 Poland13.9%
32 Russian Federation13.8%
33 Latvia13.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.889277 X +6.207
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 24468.242696 X +28994.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.644476 X +78.849
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.400157 X +1.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.620474 X +14.393
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095