The present book deals with economic and financial crime issues regarding its most spread
forms of our days–corruption, shadow economy and money laundering. The approaches …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corruption and
population health. Our cross-sectional sample covers 185 countries (54 high-income and …

Bulgaria is among the European Union (EU) countries with the highest burden of cervical
cancers and life expectancy below the EU average. The majority of cervical cancer cases …

The quality of local institutions and the governmental measures sustaining Foreign Direct
Investments (FDI) are some of the traditional determinants of multinational agglomerations …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a growing public health problem in Bulgaria. While
individual and lifestyle determinants have been researched; till date there has been no study …

The aim of this paper is to explain the prevalence of informal payments in the health services
sector in Southern Europe using the lens of institutional theory. To evaluate whether informal …

The aim of this paper is to explain informal payments by patients to healthcare professionals
for the first time through the lens of institutional theory as arising when there are formal …

Background: A new institutional approach toward informal payments in healthcare views
informal payments as arising when there is a misalignment between values/norms (informal …

The aim of this paper is to propose and evaluate a new institutional theory explanation for
patients making informal payments for health services in Central and Eastern Europe. This …

Corruption is a major challenge in health care systems across the European Union (EU),
where it manifests most visibly as informal payments from patients to providers. A higher …