Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We ur...

In an editorial titled “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems” the authors Hutchinson, Balabanova, and McKee hope to encourage a wider conversation about corruption in the health sector. Such conversations are difficult to hold for at least five reasons; it is hard to define corruption; corruption may allow some fragile health systems to subsist, shifting blame – are those involved...

The health sector often appears prominent in surveys of perceived corruption, because citizens experience the symptoms of systemic corruption most distressingly during their interaction with frontline health workers. However, the underlying drivers of systemic corruption in society may be located in other social systems with the health system demonstrating the symptoms ...

corruption defined as abuse of power by governmental officials for personal goals.in recent years, many articles about determinants of corruption have been written that introduced so many variables as determinants of corruption. these factors can be divided into two categories: economic and non-economic factors.in these article we examine the effect of economic activities combination on corrupt...

This paper investigates the determinants of corruption, and highlights its relation to the growth. The corruption index is taken from Transparency International. We used the more recent data set from 1995 to 2005. First part of the study is based on determinants of corruption. The empirical results indicate that real GDP per capita, secondary school enrolment, public spending on education, FDI,...

of the Dissertation Comprehensive Memory Error Protection via Diversity and Taint-Tracking by Lorenzo Cavallaro Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science Università degli Studi di Milano 2007 Memory errors in C and C++ programs are one of the oldest classes of vulnerabilities. Attackers have been exploiting these errors since late 80’s and these issues are still a real and concrete threat. To da...