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Promoting Anti-Corruption, Transparency And Accountability To Achieve Universal Health Coverage, Theadora Koller, David Clarke, Taryn Vian
Promoting Anti-Corruption, Transparency And Accountability To Achieve Universal Health Coverage, Theadora Koller, David Clarke, Taryn Vian
Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications
Anti-corruption, transparency and accountability measures are often missing from efforts to promote universal health coverage. Yet, if unchecked, corruption represents a significant drain on domestic health resource and a major barrier to achieving universal health coverage and the sustainable development goals. The World Health Organization is promoting a coordinated public health approach to anti-corruption, transparency and accountability, working with global partners to create new internal control and assurance models, increase monitoring and evaluation; develop capacity for multiple stakeholders to address corruption; and strengthen normative guidance to integrate anti-corruption, transparency and accountability into WHO’s work on health systems strengthening. The articles …
High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What To Do About Corruption In Health Systems, Taryn Vian
High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What To Do About Corruption In Health Systems, Taryn Vian
Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications
Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We urgently need to focus on corruption as a health systems problem. In addition to supporting research to better understand the context and implications of corruption in health systems, this article suggests actions that public health professionals can do now to fight corruption.