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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States50.7%
2 Canada48.9%
3 Germany40.9%
4 France 40.4%
5 Australia38.0%
6 Republic of Korea34.2%
7 Japan27.7%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.389241 X +5.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 154639.300295 X -11522.165
Correlation coefficient (r)0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -25.360581 X +92.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.751
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.564

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.923481 X +0.701
Correlation coefficient (r)0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -12.303469 X +17.424
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052