Who Is Paying For Health Care In Europe And Central Asia
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Who is Paying for Health Care in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
Author | : Maureen A. Lewis |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780821348062 |
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Informal payments in the health sector of Eastern and Central Asia are emerging as a fundamental aspect of health care financing and a serious impediment to health care reform. These informal payments, made to individuals or institutions in cash or in kind, are nearly always for services that are meant to be covered by the health care system. Such private payments to public personnel have created an informal market for health care , and are a form of corruption. This problem's roots are traced to declining revenues which have not coincided with a reduction in buildings, hospital beds and health personnel. In these circumstances informal payments compensate for lost earnings, and therefore reforms to modernise the region's health systems must compete with individuals' personal revenues. Options for addressing this problem include comprehensive anticorruption policies, downsizing of the public health system, reducing the set of services sibsidised by the state, encouraging cost sharing with those who can afford it, improving accountability, and promoting private alternatives.