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Anticorruption in the Health Sector : Strategies for Transparency and Accountability / ed. by Taryn Vian, Harald Mathisen, William D. Savedoff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2010]Description: 1 online resource (147 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781565493759
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.163
LOC classification:
  • RA410.5
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: A Guide to Effective Anticorruption Reform -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE Taking Funds From Public Coffers -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Closing Opportunities for Corruption in the Health Sector -- CHAPTER 2 Fighting Fraud in Hospitals -- CHAPTER 3 Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects -- CHAPTER 4 Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems -- PART TWO Demanding Payment Where Services Should Be Free -- CHAPTER 5 Informal Pay and the Quality of Health Care: Lessons From Tanzania -- CHAPTER 6 Strategies for Reducing Informal Payments -- PART THREE Manipulating Procurement and Drug Supply -- CHAPTER 7 Pay for Honesty? Lessons on Wages and Corruption from Public Hospitals -- CHAPTER 8 Preventing Drug Diversion Through Supply Chain Management -- CHAPTER 9 The Impact of Information and Accountability on Hospital Procurement Corruption -- CHAPTER 10 Transparency and Accountability in an Electronic Era: The Case of Pharmaceutical Procurement -- PART FOUR Restoring Integrity Through Transparency and Accountability -- CHAPTER 11 Transparency in Health Programs -- CHAPTER 12 Using Financial Performance Monitoring to Promote Transparency and Accountability in Health Systems -- CHAPTER 13 Budget Transparency, Civil Society and Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: A brief, readable field guide, Anticorruption in the Health Sector brings practical experience to bear on anticorruption approaches tailored specifically to health. The contributors, all skilled practitioners, address the consequences of different types of corruption and show how agencies can more effectively address these challenges as an integral part of their development work. Both practitioner and classroom-friendly, this book finally addresses a neglected issue that has so much bearing on global health and governance.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: A Guide to Effective Anticorruption Reform -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE Taking Funds From Public Coffers -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Closing Opportunities for Corruption in the Health Sector -- CHAPTER 2 Fighting Fraud in Hospitals -- CHAPTER 3 Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects -- CHAPTER 4 Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems -- PART TWO Demanding Payment Where Services Should Be Free -- CHAPTER 5 Informal Pay and the Quality of Health Care: Lessons From Tanzania -- CHAPTER 6 Strategies for Reducing Informal Payments -- PART THREE Manipulating Procurement and Drug Supply -- CHAPTER 7 Pay for Honesty? Lessons on Wages and Corruption from Public Hospitals -- CHAPTER 8 Preventing Drug Diversion Through Supply Chain Management -- CHAPTER 9 The Impact of Information and Accountability on Hospital Procurement Corruption -- CHAPTER 10 Transparency and Accountability in an Electronic Era: The Case of Pharmaceutical Procurement -- PART FOUR Restoring Integrity Through Transparency and Accountability -- CHAPTER 11 Transparency in Health Programs -- CHAPTER 12 Using Financial Performance Monitoring to Promote Transparency and Accountability in Health Systems -- CHAPTER 13 Budget Transparency, Civil Society and Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index

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A brief, readable field guide, Anticorruption in the Health Sector brings practical experience to bear on anticorruption approaches tailored specifically to health. The contributors, all skilled practitioners, address the consequences of different types of corruption and show how agencies can more effectively address these challenges as an integral part of their development work. Both practitioner and classroom-friendly, this book finally addresses a neglected issue that has so much bearing on global health and governance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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