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Household health-seeking behaviour and response to Informal payment: does economic status matter? [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Economics Review
Introduction 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Informal Payments for Health Care in Iran: Results of a Qualitative Study [PDF]

open access: yesIranian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Informal Patient Payments and Bought and Brought Goods in the Western Balkans – A Scoping Review [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Does the implementation of official user charges help to eradicate informal payments – Lessons to be learnt from the Hungarian experience [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2015
Petra eBaji   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Causes of Informal Payments in Healthcare Services: A Systematic Review

open access: yesSağlık 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
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inégalités dans l’accès et dans le financement des soins au Tadjikistan : le rôle des stratégies informelles et des migrations

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Informal Payments and Health System Governance in Serbia: A Pilot Study

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2017
Few studies address Serbian providers’ perceptions of informal payments and the association between these perceptions and health system governance. The aim was to investigate civil servants’ perceptions on informal payments of the health care system in ...
Sofie Buch Mejsner   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

How do patient characteristics influence informal payments for inpatient and outpatient health care in Albania: Results of logit and OLS models using Albanian LSMS 2005

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2011
Background Informal payments for health care are common in most former communist countries. This paper explores the demand side of these payments in Albania.
Tomini Sonila, Maarse Hans
doaj   +1 more source

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