There is increasing interest among health policymakers, planners and donors in how
corruption affects health care access and outcomes, and what can be done to combat …

In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe
have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects …

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is one of six regional offices throughout the world,
each with its own programme geared to the particular health problems of the countries it …

Background An adequate amount of prepaid resources for health is important to ensure
access to health services and for the pursuit of universal health coverage. Previous studies …

What factors affect health care delivery in the developing world? Anecdotal evidence of lives
cut tragically short and the loss of productivity due to avoidable diseases is an area of salient …

Although access to health care is frequently identified as a goal for health care policy, the
precise meaning of access to health care often remains unclear. We present a conceptual …

Background The amount of resources, particularly prepaid resources, available for health
can affect access to health care and health outcomes. Although health spending tends to …

The current study investigated the association between out-of-pocket health expenditure
and poverty using macroeconomic data from a sample of 145 countries from 2000 to 2017 …

Many families around the world make sizable out-of-pocket payments for health care. We
calculated the frequency of borrowing money or selling assets to buy health services in forty …

Informal, under-the-table payments to public health care providers are increasingly viewed
as a critically important source of health care financing in developing and transition …