Informal Patient Payments and Bought and Brought Goods in the Western Balkans – A Scoping Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 Introduction Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare. Aim To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and ...
Sofie Buch Mejsner +1 more
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Making patients pay: informal patient payments in Central and Eastern European Countries [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Informal patient payments are a key characteristic of nearly all Central and Eastern European health care systems (1–3). Apart from formal patient payments, which are regulated by national legislation (4) and quasi-formal charges, which are set by the health care provider in the absence of clear government regulations (5–7), there are also informal ...
Tetiana eStepurko +4 more
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Exploring drivers and management strategies of informal patient payments in hospitals: A qualitative study in Iran. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundInformal patient payments remain a persistent and multifaceted challenge in many health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Ali Reza Yusefi, Jamshid Bahmaei
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Explaining informal patient payments through gaps in governance – a comparative assessment of health system governance in three European countries [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Informal patient payments remain a problem in many European health care systems, and poor health system governance is recognized as a key factor driving their persistence.
Marzena Tambor +4 more
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Health Policy Open, 2020 Although informal patient payments are a common feature of health systems in developing countries, little empirical evidence is available about the prevalence and magnitude of these payments in African health systems. The main objective of this study was
Felix Masiye +2 more
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New insight into the informal patients’ payments on the evidence of literature: a systematic review study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Nowadays, a growing literature reveals how patients use informal payments to seek either better treatment or additional services, but little systematic review has been accomplished for synthesizing the main factors.
Arefeh Pourtaleb +3 more
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Rethinking informal payments by patients in Europe: An institutional approach [PDF]
Health Policy, 2017 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 institutional imperfections and asymmetry between norms, values and practices and the codified formal laws and regulations.
Adrian V Horodnic, Colin C. Williams
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Trends in Informal Payments by Patients in Europe: A Public Health Policy Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: A new institutional approach toward informal payments in healthcare views informal payments as arising when there is a misalignment between values/norms (informal institutions) and the formal rules (formal institutions) of patients. However, less knowledge is available on the effectiveness of this approach in tackling informal payments in ...
Adrian V Horodnic
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Empirical studies on informal patient payments for health care services: a systematic and critical review of research methods and instruments [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2010 Background Empirical evidence demonstrates that informal patient payments are an important feature of many health care systems. However, the study of these payments is a challenging task because of their potentially illegal and sensitive nature.
Pavlova Milena +3 more
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Informal payments and the illusion of free care: a perspective from Somalia’s fragile health system [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in HealthUniversal Health Coverage (UHC) promises access to care without financial hardship, yet in many low- and middle-income settings this ideal is undermined by pervasive informal payments. This perspective introduces the concept of the “illusion of free care”
Ilyas Abdullahi Khalif +5 more
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