The underuse of women's health care services in HungaryA preliminary study

Reproductive Health Services in Russia and CEE - a Review on Providers and Provider-Patient-Relations Research in English 1990-2010,

“…There are research publications available from Bulgaria (Todorova et al 2006), Hungary (Scanlan et al 1996), Lithuania (Jaruseviciene, Levasseur and Liljestrand 2006;Lazarus, Jaruseviciene and Liljestrand 2008), and Romania (Johnson and Horga 1993;Johnson et al 1996Johnson et al , 2004Todorova et al 2006). One data set is based on a survey on service users (Scanlan et al 1996), three on survey and interview data on health providers Lazarus et al 2008;Todorova et al 2006), and two include data on both service users and health providers. In addition, a book chapter was based on personal experience and observations of a reproductive health service consultant in Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Romania (Chalmers 1997).…”

“…A survey of service users that was conducted in Hungary before 1996 reported that slightly more than half of the respondents were satisfied with the healthcare personnel and the care received, and almost one-fifth was not satisfied with the personnel and nearly a quarter dissatisfied with the care. The reasons for dissatisfaction were inappropriate behaviour towards patients, long waiting times, and lack of hygiene (Scanlan et al 1996). With regard to the providers' perspective, semi-structured interviews in Romania and Bulgaria revealed several discourses on women's responsibility over their own health in relation to cervical cancer screening, some of the discourses being normative whereas others saw women as victims of healthcare reforms (Todorova et al 2006).…”