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Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems

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Maureen Lewis ()
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What factors affect health care delivery in the developing world? Anecdotal evidence of lives cut tragically short and the loss of productivity due to avoidable diseases is an area of salient concern in global health and international development. This working paper looks at factual evidence to describe the main challenges facing health care delivery in developing countries, including absenteeism, corruption, informal payments, and mismanagement. The author concludes that good governance is important in ensuring effective health care delivery, and that returns to investments in health are low where governance issues are not addressed.

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Paper provided by Center for Global Development in its series Working Papers with number 78.

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Length: 57 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2006
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Keywords: governance; corruption; health care; disease; absenteeism;

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H0 - Public Economics - - General
O0 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - General
I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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  1. Jack, William & Lewis, Maureen, 2009. "Health investments and economic growth : macroeconomic evidence and microeconomic foundations," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4877, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  2. Jennifer Hunt, 2007. "Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda," IZA Discussion Papers 2757, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Keith Blackburn & Rashmi Sarmah, 2008. "Corruption, development and demography," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 341-362, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Kira Boerner & Christa Hainz, 2007. "The Political Economy of Corruption & the Role of Financial Institutions," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp892, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
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