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An expanded framework for understanding corruption in healthcare.

Prachinkumar Ghodajkar1, Ritu Priya2

  • 1Assistant Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA.

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Healthcare corruption is widespread and varies by country. Existing frameworks often overlook systemic issues, especially in low- and middle-income countries, necessitating a new approach to combatting health sector corruption.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Systems Research
  • Socio-economics of Healthcare

Background:

  • Corruption in healthcare systems is a global issue, varying in nature and extent due to socio-political and historical factors.
  • Current corruption measurement frameworks are often ahistorical, lack a systems perspective, and may inaccurately portray developing nations as more corrupt.
  • The ineffectiveness of current anticorruption strategies necessitates a deeper understanding of corruption's systemic pathways, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and critique existing frameworks for defining and analyzing corruption in the health sector.
  • To propose an expanded, systemic framework for understanding corruption pathways across all levels of the health system.
  • To examine the relevance of this expanded framework to low- and middle-income countries, using India as a case study.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of corruption definitions and analysis frameworks.
  • Development of a novel, expanded framework for systemic corruption analysis in healthcare.
  • Case study analysis focusing on the socio-political and historical context of India's healthcare system.

Main Results:

  • Existing corruption frameworks are limited, often overlooking institutionalized corruption and systemic issues.
  • The proposed expanded framework highlights how historical socio-political structures, elite dominance, and a focus on conventional biomedicine contribute to an unsustainable and unaffordable healthcare system.
  • The medical industrial complex, driven by profit, exacerbates corruption by creating unmet needs, dependency, and weak accountability.

Conclusions:

  • A systemic and historical lens is crucial for understanding and addressing healthcare corruption, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Colonial legacies and elite dominance have shaped healthcare systems, leading to unaffordability, unsustainability, and alienation of the population.
  • Reforming healthcare systems requires addressing the influence of the medical industrial complex and strengthening regulatory and accountability mechanisms to combat pervasive corruption.