Dina Balabanova
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
[ 1 ] - We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems
The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...
[ 2 ] - Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It
Background Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. We describe a consensus building exercise in which we asked health workers and policy-makers to identify and prioritise feasible responses to corruption in the Nigerian ...
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