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Addressing health corruption during a public health crisis through anticipatory governance: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Corruption in the health sector costs over 500 billion USD annually, weakening health system preparedness and response to health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of resources to deal with a shock limits the capacity to protect the population, exposing them to a greater risk of infection a...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez-Aquines, Alejandro, Kowalska-Bobko, Iwona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35968489
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.952979
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description Corruption in the health sector costs over 500 billion USD annually, weakening health system preparedness and response to health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of resources to deal with a shock limits the capacity to protect the population, exposing them to a greater risk of infection and mortality. There is an urgent need to improve health policy to reduce corruption in the health sector during times of crisis. This article aims to propose a prepare and response strategy to address corruption during times of health crises. We first explore the inherent characteristics of health systems that make them vulnerable to corruption and present the different faces corrupt practices take. We then explain why anticipatory governance is fundamental in addressing corruption in health systems and draw upon examples of corruption during COVID-19. Finally, we conclude by proposing that anticipatory governance could decrease the impact of corruption during health crises by increasing the availability of resources required to improve the population's health.
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spelling pubmed-93726142022-08-13 Addressing health corruption during a public health crisis through anticipatory governance: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic Gonzalez-Aquines, Alejandro Kowalska-Bobko, Iwona Front Public Health Public Health Corruption in the health sector costs over 500 billion USD annually, weakening health system preparedness and response to health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of resources to deal with a shock limits the capacity to protect the population, exposing them to a greater risk of infection and mortality. There is an urgent need to improve health policy to reduce corruption in the health sector during times of crisis. This article aims to propose a prepare and response strategy to address corruption during times of health crises. We first explore the inherent characteristics of health systems that make them vulnerable to corruption and present the different faces corrupt practices take. We then explain why anticipatory governance is fundamental in addressing corruption in health systems and draw upon examples of corruption during COVID-19. Finally, we conclude by proposing that anticipatory governance could decrease the impact of corruption during health crises by increasing the availability of resources required to improve the population's health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9372614/ /pubmed/35968489 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.952979 Text en Copyright © 2022 Gonzalez-Aquines and Kowalska-Bobko. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Addressing health corruption during a public health crisis through anticipatory governance: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372614/
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