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[Global Corruption Report 2006] Informal payments for health care
Savedoff, William Hussmann, Karen
Savedoff, William
Hussmann, Karen
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"Informal payments – charges for services or supplies that are supposed to be free – are common in many parts of the world, especially in developing and transition countries. While it is difficult to draw a line between voluntary gift and mandatory payment, and between payments that should be considered bribes or extortion, and those that are better understood as a coping mechanism for underpaid caregivers, there is less disagreement about the damaging effects these payments have on health systems worldwide. Sara Allin, Konstantina Davaki and Elias Mossialos look at the causes and consequences of informal payments in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, where informal financing is a legacy of communist health care systems. They argue that raising the wages of health professionals alone is unlikely to eliminate the problem and point to a number of essential policy measures, such as developing appropriate incentives and suitable information systems to support the accounting and auditing of payments."(pg 62)
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2006
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0745325092
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