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We Need to Measure and Address Corruption and Poor Governance in Health Systems: Comment on "We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems"

Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best...

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Autor principal: Lewis, Maureen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6819622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31657190
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.44
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Sumario:Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best to address corruption – arguing that governance rather than corruption may offer a preferred starting point, and highlighting some options for measuring, analyzing and stemming corruption.