Institutional Determinants of Informal Payments for Health Services: An Exploratory Analysis across 117 Countries [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Adrian V Horodnic +2 more
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Informal Payments for Health Care in Iran: Results of a Qualitative Study [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2015 Background: Informal payments to health care providers have been reported in many African, Asian and European countries. This study aimed to investigate different aspects of these payments that are also known as under-the-table payments in Iran. Methods:
Mojtaba Parsa +4 more
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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 +5 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 +1 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 +4 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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Does the implementation of official user charges help to eradicate informal payments – Lessons to be learnt from the Hungarian experience [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Petra eBaji +5 more
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Revue de la Régulation, 2020 Informal payments to healthcare professionals in post-soviet health systems persisted, despite the healthcare reforms. That is true in independent Tajikistan, where the increase in those payments has been associated with increased forgone care and the ...
Sandra Pellet
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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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Governing Informal Payments by Market in the Chinese Healthcare System [PDF]
, 2017 Informal payments are an illegitimate practice that has been endemic in the Chinese healthcare system for decades. This chapter examines two market mechanisms that the government has used to contain it, namely, internal competition and differential ...
Jingqing Yang, Yang, J
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