Corruption and Healthcare Delivery: Towards a Progressive Intervention in Nigerian Correctional Centres

The Role of Corruption and Healthcare Expenditure in Healthcare Systems of the Persian Gulf Region

Background and Purpose: More than a third of the world’s population lack access to essential medicines, despite the presence of several international agreements that proclaim health as a human right. Corruption, in its many forms, such as bribery and embezzlement, causes several detrimental effects on the health sector and access to medicines including economic, health, and government ima...

Managed behavioral healthcare in correctional settings.

This paper alerts practitioners and administrators in correctional healthcare settings to a variety of issues of concern when advising or negotiating with state or county governments on the provision of managed behavioral healthcare. The participation of the mental health practitioner or administrator involved in determining the quality and appropriateness of behavioral managed care contractual...

Profile of Violent Behaviour by Inmates in NSW Correctional Centres

Inmates who display violent behaviour present significant management and security demands on correctional centres in NSW and pose a potential risk of harm to other inmates, correctional staff and to the general community. The current bulletin provides a preliminary snapshot of the number of sentenced inmates in NSW correctional centres who have displayed violent behaviour and profiles the demog...

Towards a Sustainable Anti-Corruption Strategy: An Ethic-Induced Model

Literature abounds to show that the current anti-corruption strategies have failed to fight corruption because of neglect of ethics in these strategies, despite its importance. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to anti-corruption theory by developing a model that clarifies many complex ethical dilemmas around corruption. To develop a conceptual model, the extant literatures on...

Corruption in healthcare: a problem in Germany, too.