The inequity of informal payments for health care: The case of Hungary
✍ Scribed by Agota Szende; Anthony Johr Culyer
- Book ID
- 116516414
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8510
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## Abstract Informal payments are known to be widespread in the post‐communist health care systems of Central and Eastern Europe. However, their role and nature remains contentious, with the debate characterized by much polemic. This paper steps back from this debate to examine the theoretical basi
## SUMMARY The objective of this paper is to study the short‐term effects of the introduction of the visit fee in Hungary in 2007 on informal patient payments. We present the pattern of informal payments in primary, out‐patient specialist and in in‐patient care in the period before and shortly afte