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Survey : More than 40 percent Romanians face a major health problem in 2010
About 75 percent Romanians went to the doctor in 2010, with 43 percent of the Romanians faced a major health issue in the same year, 24 percent were hospitalized and 88 percent bought medicine, reveals a survey made by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy.
According to the survey, women visited the doctors more often and bought medicine in a greater amount. Medicine consumption proved very high with all age categories according to the survey, even among youngsters (81.1 percent aged between 18 and 35 years old).
The report also shows that, in 2010, 15 percent of the respondents bribed doctors especially, and 16 percent claim they were asked for this money. The most exposed category in this respect is that ranging between 51 and 60 years old, the people with higher education, living in urban areas and those living in southern Romania, Bucharest and Dobrogea. Higher-educated, large income earning males say they were asked for bribe, while the ethnic Hungarians do not blame others for the bribe they offered.
The survey released to the media on Wednesday night was conducted on a nationally relevant sample of 1,436 individuals older than 18. The interviews were made using CATI methodology (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing), between 15 and 16 December 2010, with a maximum margin of error of +- 2.7 percent.