There is little research into the understanding, protection and recovery of public trust in
health care systems, considering the underlying importance of public trust, not only for the …

The conceptual ambiguity of public trust in the healthcare system poses problems for
governance and public trust measurement. Therefore, we aimed to answer: what is public …

Public trust lacks a precise, theoretically grounded and empirically tested definition, despite
the increasing research interest and widespread use of the term in relation to different health …

Trust is at the centre of the public and health system relationship. The public takes part in
trusted health system activities and its trust legitimises health system activities. Examples of …

This article describes public trust in health care in three European countries. Public trust is a
generalised attitude, influenced by people's experiences in contacts with representatives of …

Purpose–If public trust in health care is to be used as a performance indicator for health care
systems, its measurement has to be sensitive to changes in the health care system. For this …

Public trust is indispensable for the well-functioning of health system activities (Gille et al.
2017). We understand public trust to be a concept that grows in the public sphere from open …

Although the concept of trust has gained popularity in public debate and academic analysis
over recent years, it continues to be regarded by many as difficult to define and so to …

Trust is believed to be particularly salient to the provision of health care, and since the
establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, trust has played an important …

Broadly defined, trust in the healthcare system is concerned with how the public perceives
the system and the actors therein as it pertains to their ability to both deliver services and …