Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xFC3tW. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Trust in providers has been in decline in recent decades. This study attempts to identify sources of trust in characteristics of health care systems and the wider community. The design is cross-sectional. Data are from (1) the 1996 Household Survey of the Community Tracking Study, drawn from 24 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ; (2) a 1996 multi-city broadcast media marketing database including key social capital indicators ; (3) Interstudy ; (4) the American Hospital Association ; and (5) the American Medical Association. Independent variables include individual socio-demographic variables, HMO enrollment, community-level health sector variables, and social capital. The dependent variable is self-reported trust in physicians. Data are merged from the various sources and analyzed using SUDAAN. Subjects include adults in the Household Survey who responded to the items on trust in physicians (N=17,653). Trust in physicians is independently predicted by community social capital (p
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