Fifty Years of Trust Research in Health Care: A Synthetic Review.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points First, policymakers can create conditions that will facilitate public trust in health care organizations by making creating and enforcing health policies that make exploitative behavior costly. Second, policymakers can bolster the trustworthiness of health care markets and organizations by using their regulatory authority to address and mitigate harm from conflicts-of-interest and regulatory capture. Third, policymakers and government agencies can further safeguard the public's trust by being transparent and effective about their role in the provision of health services to the public.

Context

Trust plays a critical role in facilitating health care delivery and calls for rebuilding trust in health care are increasingly commonplace. This article serves as a primer on the

SUBMITTER: Taylor LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037697 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature