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 ...

BACKGROUND Corruption is the abuse or complicity in abuse, of public or private position, power or authority to benefit oneself, a group, an organisation or others close to oneself; where the benefits may be financial, material or non-material. It is wide-spread in the health sector and represents a major problem. OBJECTIVES Our primary objective was to systematically summarise empirical evid...

Public sector corruption has long-term and damaging effects that are deep and broad. Addressing corruption relies on understanding the drivers that precipitate acts of corruption and developing educational programs that target areas of vulnerability. This paper provides an innovative approach to explore the nature of corruption by drawing on the perceptions and ideas of a group of public servan...

“For seven years I had to bear the burden of doing unnecessary investigations and procedures, including angioplasty, under pressure from the management of the hospital,” GautamMistry, a cardiologist in Kolkata, told The BMJ. What Mistry is describing is one of the best kept secrets of India’s private healthcare sector—consultants hired by private hospitals have to meet targets for generating re...

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...

Corruption is not a new phenomenon; we are living with it since the birth of government’s institutions. Corruption has two dimensions; public sector corruption and private sector corruption. The public sector corruption means, “misuse of public office for private benefits”. For cross country analysis, public sector corruption is mainly focused. In this study, we have analyzed the 41 developing ...

Information and Communication Technology plays dominant role in all business undertaken by the government. If all interactions with government can be done through single counter 24x7, without waiting in lines at the leisure of house than it will be highly convenient to all citizens. This will not facilitate the government to avoid corruption and reach people directly, it will additionally help ...

591 July 2012, Vol. 102, No. 7 SAMJ Progressive disempowerment and provincial healthcare under-budgeting in the Eastern Cape almost forced the resignation of its corruption-buster chief, Dr Siva Pillay and his most trusted administrators last month. The political moves were directly responsible for thousands of healthcare workers going without pay or being underpaid, for five months. National h...

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Corruption takes place when public officials break the law in pursuit of their private interest. But public officials can break different laws in different ways with different implications for the public good. The factors driving corruption and the effects of corruption can therefore vary widely. Understanding the causes and consequences of corruption is particularly important in developing cou...