Opinions on the Italian national health care after the COVID crisis 2020, by gender

The Italian national health care underwent a huge challenge when the country was the first in Europe to be severely hit by COVID-19. A survey conducted in June 2020 attempted to find out what the opinions of Italian citizens were concerning the way the national health care faced the challenge and the structural issues it shed light on. 22 percent of men and 21 percent of women believed the national health care system stood up to the challenge, but there were still 14 percent of men and 12 percent of women who believed it did not.Female respondents seemed to be more convinced with respect to the introduction of additional resources for the public system. 56 percent of them reported the need for more personnel and 53 percent maintained the necessity to direct more funds to this sector. On the other hand, men (34 percent) highlighted more strongly the need for modernization of the health care system compared to women (23 percent).

意大利国家医疗保障体系在成为欧洲首个遭受COVID-19严重打击的国家时，遭遇了巨大的挑战。2020年6月进行的一项调查旨在探究意大利公民对于国家医疗保障体系应对挑战及揭示的结构性问题的看法。在受访者中，22%的男性及21%的女性认为国家医疗保障体系成功地抵御了挑战，然而仍有14%的男性和12%的女性持相反观点。女性受访者似乎对公共体系额外资源的引入更为信服。其中，56%的女性表示需要更多的人员，而53%的女性则认为有必要将更多的资金投入到该领域。另一方面，相较于女性（23%），男性（34%）更加强调医疗保障体系现代化的必要性。