Public satisfaction as a measure of health system performance: a study of nine countries in the former Soviet Union.

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Published in Health Policy on March 30, 2013

Authors

Katharine Footman1, Bayard Roberts, Anne Mills, Erica Richardson, Martin McKee

Author Affiliations

1: European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, United Kingdom. Electronic address: Katharine.footman@lshtm.ac.uk.

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