Full Description
This book offers a broad international analysis of healthcare corruption, drawing upon criminology, sociology, psychology, law, political and behavioural economics and nudge theory. It engages with the existing key debates on how to define healthcare corruption and the measurement of it but builds on this and offers new analysis of these issues in the private healthcare sector too. Furthermore, it moves beyond the analysis of funds lost to healthcare and includes the impact and costs of healthcare corruption on victims and family members of victims and the CJS. It also uniquely considers that the healthcare sector victimizes patients and its own employees, with the healthcare sector as part of a carceral state to help highlight how different disciplines can contribute to our understanding in reducing healthcare corruption.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Healthcare corruption An interdisciplinary problem.- Chapter 3. Types of Healthcare Corruption and the Problem of Measurement.- Chapter 4. The Costs and Impacts of Healthcare Corruption.- Chapter 5. Telemedicine Healthcare at a distance.- Chapter 6. Substandard, Unlicensed and Counterfeit Healthcare Products.- Chapter 7. Defensive Healthcare Practice An Environment for Corruption.- Chapter 8. The Healthcare Sector as part of a Carceral State.- Chapter 9. Exposing Corruption in the Healthcare Sector An Impenetrable Edifice.- Chapter 10. Uncaring Homes Control and Exclusion.- Chapter 11. Rational Choice and Behavioral Economics.- Chapter 12. A Nudge in the right Direction Persuading People to change.- Chapter 13. Reflections and Conclusion.
