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Cost of corruption in healthcare, measuring its impact and strengthening anti-corruption strategies
Corruption in health systems is a significant barrier to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), leading to wasted resources, compromised quality of care, and preventable illness and death. While it is well known that corruption imposes substantial costs, effectively addressing the issue requires robust methods to measure and monitor its financial and health impacts.

This discussion document provides an overview of existing approaches to estimating the cost of corruption in healthcare, offering insights to inform anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability (ACTA) policies and interventions. It highlights promising methodologies for assessing corruption-related losses and underscores the feasibility of empirical measurement.
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Publication_TechMeeting2022
GNACTA Technical Meeting Report 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a Technical Meeting of GNACTA on December 15 and 16, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland to help sustain momentum in addressing corruption, transparency and accountability in health, to support strengthening health systems, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report details the outcomes of the Technical Meeting.
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Publication_NHPSP2019
Reinforcing the focus on anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in national health policies, strategies and plans
This foundational document proposes ways to approach national health planning and the development of policies and strategies to identify corruption risk areas and help countries decide which ACTA approaches should be deployed in response. The goal is to support the efforts to prevent corruption through greater transparency and reinforced accountability mechanisms in health systems.
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Publication_CorruptionAssess2019
Integrating a focus on anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in health systems assessments
Corruption in the health sector has high costs both in terms of lives lost and financial resources wasted. This document proposes new ways to approach health systems assessment to help diagnose corruption risk areas and help countries to decide which ant-corruption, transparency and accountability approaches should be deployed in response.
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Publication_Ghostworkers2020
Findings from a rapid review of literature on ghost workers in the health sector: towards improving detection and prevention
The problem of ghost workers in the health sector is an understudied phenomenon, yet the existence of this form of payroll fraud is a significant drain on public health and overall budgets in some countries, undercutting global and public health goals. This rapid review explores a selection of relevant research to identify types of payroll fraud related to the ghost worker problem, and analyses how the fraud triangle theory can help to explain the prevalence of ghost workers in the health sector.
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