According to a survey in Russia, about 20% of respondents do everything possible to avoid seeing a doctor; this holds whether they are healthy or have chronic diseases, and the tendency is most pronounced among the well-off – those with greater education, white-collar jobs, and good living conditions, say Dina Pavlovna Solodukhina of Kursk State University of Medicine in Russia and Natalia Aleftinovna Zavialova of the Russian Federal Oversight for Consumer Protection. Moreover, the survey of people of average age 62 to 63 shows that only 1 in 3 of healthy respondents and 1 in 10 of the chronically ill always visit a doctor when they feel unwell. Russians tend to have low trust in doctors, they don’t like waiting in registration lines, and many rely on folk remedies, the researchers say.
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