Trends in Informal Payments by Patients in Europe: A Public Health Policy Approach.

ABSTRACT: Background: A new institutional approach toward informal payments in healthcare views informal payments as arising when there is a misalignment between values/norms (informal institutions) and the formal rules (formal institutions) of patients. However, less knowledge is available on the effectiveness of this approach in tackling informal payments in healthcare. This study aimed to fill this gap by evaluating the trends in the effect of institutional misalignment on informal payments made by patients. Methods: A quantitative study design with data extracted from the last three waves of special Eurobarometer surveys on corruption was used to model the propensity of European patients in 27 European Union countries and the United Kingdom to make informal payments. Multilevel log

SUBMITTER: Horodnic AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8645776 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature