Corruption in Anglophone West Africa health systems: a systematic review of its different variants and the factors that sustain them

Health Policy and Planning
Obinna OnwujekweDina Balabanova

Abstract

West African countries are ranked especially low in global corruption perception indexes. The health sector is often singled out for particular concern given the role of corruption in hampering access to, and utilization of health services, representing a major barrier to progress to universal health coverage and to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. The first step in tackling corruption systematically is to understand its scale and nature. We present a systematic review of literature that explores corruption involving front-line healthcare providers, their managers and other stakeholders in health sectors in the five Anglophone West African (AWA) countries: Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, identifying motivators and drivers of corrupt practices and interventions that have been adopted or proposed. Boolean operators were adopted to optimize search outputs and identify relevant studies. Both grey and published literature were identified from Research Gate, Yahoo, Google Scholar, Google and PubMed, and reviewed and synthesized around key domains, with 61 publications meeting our inclusion criteria. The top five most prevalent/frequently reported corrupt practices were (1) absenteeism; (2)...Continue Reading

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Aug 14, 2020·BMJ Global Health·Seye Abimbola
Apr 9, 2021·Journal of Global Health·Floriano AmimoMasahiro Hashizume
Jul 6, 2021·American Journal of Clinical Pathology·Emily H GlynnTaryn Vian
Oct 19, 2021·Health Policy and Planning·Selina RajanDina Balabanova

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