Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på emneord "Health Sector"
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Addressing corruption through sector approaches: Exploring lessons from the Moroccan anticorruption strategy for the health sector
(U4 Practice Insight 2013:2, Report, 2013-05-28)Sector-specific anti-corruption efforts are widely recommended but rarely implemented at the country level. The Moroccan Central Authority for Corruption Prevention opted similar approaches in any sector. Sector-specific ... -
Approaches to teaching and learning about corruption in the health sector
(U4 Brief 2009:30, Report, 2009-12-01)Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators or development agency workers, and increase transparency and ... -
Corruption during Covid-19. Trends, drivers, and lessons learned for reducing corruption in health emergencies
(U4 Issue 2022:16, Research report, 2022-11-01)Find out how corruption materialised during Covid-19, what drove it and how it impacted people. Also highlighted are anti-corruption strategies deployed and lessons learned for use in other health emergencies. -
Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects
(U4 Brief 2008:11, Report, 2008-05-02)Donor funding has fuelled a vast increase in service delivery, medical research and clinical trials throughout the developing world. Yet, there is a dark side to this badly needed influx of funding: with pressures to spend ... -
Fraud in Hospitals
(U4 Brief 2008:8, Report, 2008-05-02)Hospitals are vulnerable to corruption. In the U.S., health care fraud has been stimated to cost $60 billion per year, or 3% of total health care expenditures - much of it in the hospital sector. Hospitals account for 50% ... -
Pay for Honesty? Lessons on Wages and Corruption from Public Hospitals
(U4 Brief 2008:13, Report, 2008-05-02)Theft, graft, absenteeism and soliciting bribes in the health sector in developing countries is often blamed on low pay. But does low pay actually explain corruption? Several studies of public hospitals in Latin America ... -
Tackling fraud and corruption in Indonesia’s health insurance system
(U4 Issue 2022:13, Research report, 2022-11-01)Proper assessment, management, and mitigation of fraud and corruption risks is crucial for safeguarding Indonesia’s National Health Insurance programme. -
The Impact of Information and Accountability on Hospital Procurement Corruption in Argentina and Bolivia
(U4 Brief 2008:7, Report, 2008-05-02)Argentina and Bolivia have both attempted to curb corruption in procurement of hospital supplies. With varying degrees of success, their experiences tell a lesson: unless there are consequences attached to identified ... -
Traiter le problème de la corruption dans le secteur de la santé: Comment assurer un accès équitable pour tous aux soins de santé
(U4 Issue 2012:10, Research report, 2012-12-07)Partout dans le monde, la communauté du développement s’efforce d’obtenir des résultats et d’optimiser les investissements effectués en matière de santé. Pourtant, les bailleurs interviennent souvent dans des pays exposés ... -
Transparency and Accountability in an Electronic Era: The Case of Pharmaceutical Procurements
(U4 Brief 2008:10, Report, 2008-05-02)The burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic means that more labor and financial resources are being dedicated to the procurement of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines for reatment. While patients, physicians, national governments and ... -
Transparency as a game changer in the health sector? Insights from ACTUE Colombia
(U4 Practice Insight 2022:2, Report, 2022-10-01)Experience from transparency initiatives for pharmaceutical policy in Colombia show that ‘radical’ transparency is necessary but not sufficient. A set of corruption prevention measures applied together is key ... -
Transparency in Health Programmes
(U4 Brief 2008:9, Report, 2008-05-02)Transparency is an important tool for good governance, helping to expose abusive practices including fraud, patronage, corruption, and other abuses of power. Increasing transparency can also enhance accountability by ... -
Using financial performance indicators to promote transparency and accountability in health systems
(U4 Brief 2006:1, Report, 2006-01-01)This case-based brief presents experiences of district health management teams in South Africa, where interventions to improve district health planning and reporting, including the integration of financial data and service ... -
Weak links: How corruption affects the quality and integrity of medical products and impacts on the Covid-19 response
(U4 Issue 2021:15, Research report, 2021-12-01)Corruption is involved in poor medical product quality in five important areas: manufacturing and distribution, regulation, procurement, high-level governance, and the health workforce. Existing corruption pressures impact ...