[Willingness of Warsaw inhabitants to cooperate with health service. II. Evaluation of health and retirement security].

Providing citizens with health security is one of the main challenges for health policy. For the effective modifying the health an social care system it is very important to recognize how citizens themselves perceived their health and retirement assurance. The article presents the analysis of assessment of health care system, out-of-pocket payments for treatment, and retirement system by Warsaw inhabitants in relation to demographic characteristics and health indicators. Data were collected using not-addressed questionnaire. Our findings indicated that women, people aged 30-64 years, those having vocational education and unemployed, the others out of work as well as employed more negatively assessed health care system in comparison to the other demographic groups. The youngest and oldest people, those having elementary education and those who were economically inactive relatively frequently declared bearing very high expenses for treatment. The retirement system was more negatively assessed by women, people under 45 years, unemployed and the others out of work. The analysis of the relationship between perceived health and out-of-pocket payments for treatment and selected health indicators showed that people, who positively assessed existing health care and declared low expenses for treatment, higher evaluated their health, less frequently stayed at home because of ill-health, less frequently were in contact with physician and rarely were treated in hospital. Such differences were not noted (except one) for retirement security.