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Making patients pay: informal patient payments in Central and Eastern European Countries [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
Tetiana eStepurko, Milena ePavlova, Irena eGryga, Wim eGroot, Wim eGroot   +4 more
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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, Leena Eklund Karlsson   +1 more
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Informal payments for primary health services in Zambia: Evidence from a health facility patient exit survey

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, Oliver Kaonga, Charles Masili Banda   +2 more
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Causes of Informal Payments in Healthcare Services: A Systematic Review

Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi, 2023
Aim: In this study, it is aimed to reveal the reasons for informal payments in terms of both health service users and health care providers. Method: For this purpose, a search was conducted using the keywords " informal payment", " informal patient ...
İpek Camuz Berber, Elif Türkan Arslan
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The hidden financial burden of healthcare: a systematic literature review of informal payments in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2021
Background: Informal payments limit equitable access to healthcare. Despite being a common phenomenon, there is a need for an in-depth analysis of informal charging practices in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) context.
Kui Muraya, Dina Balabanova, Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux, Evelyn Kabia, Catherine Goodman   +5 more
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Informal payments for health care services: The case of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine

Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2015
This paper analyzes patterns of tips, gifts and bribes paid by patients for health care services. Informal payments are more prevalent in developing and transition countries because the economic and socio-cultural environment is more conducive to “gifts”-
Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Liubove Murauskiene, Wim Groot   +4 more
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Informal payments for inpatient health care in post-health transformation plan period: evidence from Iran

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background In 2014, a revision of the national medical tariffs for inpatient health care services took place in Iran, and a new hotline was set up to report informal payments.
Leila Doshmangir, Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Maryam Ghiasipour, Ali Aboutorabi, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev   +4 more
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Empirical studies on informal patient payments for health care services: a systematic and critical review of research methods and instruments

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, Stepurko Tetiana, Gryga Irena, Groot Wim   +3 more
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New insight into the informal patients’ payments on the evidence of literature: a systematic review study

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, Mehdi Jafari, Hesam Seyedin, Ali Akhavan Behbahani   +3 more
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A hidden web of policy influence: The pharmaceutical industry's engagement with UK's All-Party Parliamentary Groups.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Our objective was to examine conflicts of interest between the UK's health-focused All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) and the pharmaceutical industry between 2012 and 2018. APPGs are informal cross-party groups revolving around a particular topic run
Emily Rickard, Piotr Ozieranski
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