<p>Corruption is a fact of life in Indonesia and has significant negative impact. The malicious intention corruption normatively shifted terms its meaning, adjusting to opportunity. However, the increase not accompanied by legal policy anti-corruption supervisor design. This study analyzes procedure strengthening supervision for prevention realizing good governance. results indicate that ...

This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal reso...

The world's health systems are vulnerable to corruption in every country and at every level from central government to patients themselves, according to an encyclopaedic report into corruption released by Transparency International. The Global corruption report 2006 documents corruption on a vast scale in both rich and poor countries, and its enormous cost to public health. Each year hundreds o...

Poor drug access continues to be one of the main global health problems. Global inequalities in access to pharmaceuticals are caused by a number of variables including poverty, high drug prices, poor health infrastructure, and fraud and corruption--the latter being the subject of this article. There is growing recognition among policy makers that corruption in the pharmaceutical system can wast...

Corruption is rampant in many poor countries. As such, anti-corruption policies continue to be a central component of development strategies. For example, since 1996, the World Bank alone has supported more than 600 anti-corruption programs. Unfortunately, this is one area where research has lagged policy. Research on corruption faces two important obstacles—one empirical and one theoretical. O...

BACKGROUND In rebuilding devastated health services, the government of Afghanistan has provided access to basic services mainly by contracting with non-government organisations (NGOs), and more recently the Strengthening Mechanism (SM) of contracting with Provincial Health Offices. Community-based information about the public's views and experience of health services is scarce. METHODS Field ...

Abstract Within the broader discourse regarding nature, evolution, and health of rule law in EU recent emphasis institutions on topic anti-corruption has gone unnoticed for a long time. Still, hidden by technicalities apparent non-binding nature indications how to fight corruption Member treatys, this is quite prolific trend, as it further develops with necessary tools. In particular, proclaims...