Household health-seeking behaviour and response to Informal payment: does economic status matter? [PDF]
Health Economics ReviewIntroduction Corruption is a major factor that influences health seeking behaviour. However, there is paucity of empirical evidence from research on how corruption affects different population groups when they seek healthcare services from formal ...
Chukwudi Nwokolo, Obinna Onwujekwe
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Effect of Medicare Home Health Care Payment on Informal Care
Inquiry (United States), 2009 This paper assesses the effect of payment caps for Medicare home health care on the use of informal care by older adults with functional limitations. We find that individuals exposed to more restrictive payment caps offset reductions in Medicare home ...
Ezra Golberstein +2 more
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Supply-side factors influencing informal payment for healthcare services in Tanzania [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2021 Informal payments for healthcare are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. They are often regressive, potentially limiting access to quality healthcare, particularly for the most vulnerable, and can have catastrophic consequences for households. Yet there is
Peter Binyaruka, Dina Balabanova
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Earning opportunities and informal payment as influencing factors in medical students’ speciality choice [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2021 Background The Hungarian primary care system faces a severe shortage of family physicians. Medical students’ perceptions of family medicine need to be known and medical students need to be given appropriate and comprehensible information about this ...
András Mohos +7 more
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Socio-economic Conditions & Determinants of Income: A Tale of Informal Workers of Urban Odisha, India [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved] [PDF]
F1000ResearchBackground Informal employment and its impact on economic growth have been receiving greater attention, but less is known about their socioeconomic conditions and determinants of income in India.
Monika Saxena +2 more
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Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 Background One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments.
Bakhtiar Piroozi +5 more
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Adoption of digital payment platforms and trade credit activities among informal firms in Ghana
HeliyonThis study investigates the relationship between the utilisation of digital payment platforms and the decision of informal firms to engage in the demand for or supply of trade credit.
Mohammed Gbanja Abdulai +1 more
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Logics of acquiring medicines from informal retailers in four African countries [PDF]
Global Health ActionBackground In sub-Saharan Africa and other low-income contexts, informal medicine markets are widespread. Understanding the drivers of consumer demand is important, especially given the concerns and risks associated with medicines in the informal sector.
Janelle M. Wagnild +8 more
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Did Corruption Decrease Post-Crisis? The Case of Wholesalers across Less-Developed Economies [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2021 This study examines informal payments/gifts paid by wholesalers during and postcrisis periods. We find that bribes were less frequent for wholesalers in general, post-crisis.
Halil Dincer KAYA +1 more
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Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Background Informal payments for healthcare are typically regressive and limit access to quality healthcare while increasing risk of catastrophic health expenditure, especially in developing countries.
Peter Binyaruka +5 more
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