Executive summary Sub-Saharan Africa's health challenges are numerous and wide-
ranging. Most sub-Saharan countries face a double burden of traditional, persisting health …

There is increasing interest among health policymakers, planners and donors in how
corruption affects health care access and outcomes, and what can be done to combat …

The idea for this book gradually emerged through two workshops on the practical norms of
real governance at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of …

Informal, under-the-table payments to public health care providers are increasingly viewed
as a critically important source of health care financing in developing and transition …

In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe
have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects …

Recent scholarly attention has focused on weak governance and the negative effects of
corruption on the provision of health services. Employing agency theory, this article …

Informal payments are an ingrained social institution in Greece. In some cases, they are also
part of corruption in the health area, which includes a variety of other forms. OBJECTIVE …

The past 23 years of post-socialist restructuring of health system funding and management
patterns has brought many changes to small Balkan markets, putting them under increasing …

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities of Vietnamese
patients falling into destitution due to financial burdens occurring during a curative hospital …

Background Corruption is the abuse or complicity in abuse, of public or private position,
power or authority to benefit oneself, a group, an organisation or others close to oneself; …