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.
Adrian V Horodnic
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Informal payments in public hospitals in Malawi: the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital [PDF]
Global Health Research and Policy, 2021 Background Informal payments in public health facilities act as a barrier to accessing quality health services, especially for poor people. This research aimed to investigate informal payments for health care services at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), a ...
Annette Mphande-Namangale +1 more
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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] [PDF]
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 +5 more
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Informal payments by patients, institutional trust and institutional asymmetry [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The aim of this paper is to evaluate the extent of the practice of using informal payments for accessing the services of public clinics or hospitals across Europe and to explain the prevalence of this corrupt practice using the framework of institutional
Adrian V. Horodnic +3 more
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Informal payments for primary health services in Zambia: Evidence from a health facility patient exit survey [PDF]
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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Informal payments for family planning: prevalence and perspectives of women, providers, and health sector key informants in western Kenya [PDF]
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2021 Informal payments are off-the-record financial transactions made by patients to their healthcare providers. Providers in low- and middle-income countries solicit informal payments from patients to purchase additional supplies, supplement wages, or for ...
Katherine Tumlinson +4 more
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Informal payments for inpatient health care in post-health transformation plan period: evidence from Iran [PDF]
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 +4 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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Reasons for informal payments from the perspective of health care providers and recipients: a qualitative study in Iran [PDF]
Global Health Research and Policy, 2022 Background Informal payments are one of the major obstacles to health system reform in many developing countries, and its elimination is on the agenda of health system policymakers in many countries, including Iran.
Mohammad Arab +6 more
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How can we elicit health workers’ preferences for measures to reduce informal payments? A mixed methods approach to developing a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Objective While discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have been used in other fields as a means of eliciting respondent preferences, these remain relatively new in studying corrupt practices in the health sector.
Blake Angell +6 more
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