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Informal patient payments in maternity hospitals in Kiev, Ukraine
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2012 ABSTRACTMaternity care in Ukraine is a government priority. However, it has not undergone substantial changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Similar to the entire health care sector in Ukraine, maternity care suffers from inefficient funding, which results in low quality and poor access to services.
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Informal patient payments in publicly financed healthcare facilities in Lithuania
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2014 Background: Since the late 1990s Lithuania has had a mixed, solidary based healthcare system, predominantly funded from the National Health Insurance Fund through a compulsory health insurance scheme. The cultural tradition of informal payments in healthcare in Lithuania was inherited from the Soviet past and is still alive. Aim: This study reveals the
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Informal payments by patients for health services: prevalence and determinants
Service Industries Journal, 2018ABSTRACTThe 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 payments prevail due to formal institutional failures which lead to an asymmetry between the laws and regulations (formal institutions) and the unwritten ...
Adrian V Horodnic, Colin C. Williams
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Informal Payments for Health Care and their Implications on Patient Welfare [PDF]
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Hardardottir, Hjördis
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Patients' attitude toward informal payments in Iran: an application of the cluster analysis method
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021AbstractIntroductionAttitude is a factor affecting the behaviour of consumers. In the literature, the effect of health care consumer's attitude on making informal payments has been highlighted. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian patients regarding informal payments and socio‐demographic factors associated with it ...
Ehsan Zarei +3 more
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Understanding informal payments for health care: the example of Bulgaria
Health Policy, 2002 INTRODUCTION: Throughout the 1990s, in response to funding deficits, out-of-pocket payment has grown as a share of total expenditure in countries in transition. A clear policy response to informal payments is, however, lacking. The current study explores
Dina Balabanova
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Streamlining Payment Workflows Using a Patient Wallet for Hospital Information Systems
2018 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2018Billing and payment modules of a Hospital Information System (HIS) are vital components responsible for monetization of healthcare delivery services provided by such systems. In today's age of digital payments and cashless transactions, it has become imperative to design these payment modules to support payments via multiple user interfaces and ...
Priyesh Ranjan +3 more
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