ArticleInternational journal of public health2020
The relationship between corruption and chronic diseases: evidence from Europeans aged 50 years and older.
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- Investigating the relationship between corruption and health system outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Country-level predictors of COVID-19 mortality.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Does voluntary health insurance improve health and longevity? Evidence from European OECD countries.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Article
- Corruption, public trust and medical autonomy in the public health sector of Montenegro: Taking stock of the COVID-19 influence.PloS one · 2022Article
- The Companion Pandemic to COVID-19: The Use of Informal Practices to Access Public Healthcare Services in the European Union.International journal of public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesDo people living in more corrupted countries report worse health? We answer this question by investigating the relationship between country-level corruption and the number of chronic diseases for a sample of Europeans aged above 50.
methodsWe link a rich panel dataset on individual health and socio-demographic characteristics with two country-level corruption indices, analyse the overall relationship with pooled ordinary least squares and fixed-effect models, explore heterogeneous effects driven by country and individual factors, and disentangle the effect across different public sectors.
resultsIndividuals living in more corrupted countries suffer from a higher number of chronic diseases. The heterogeneity analysis shows that (1) health outcomes are worsened especially for respondents living in relatively low-income countries; (2) the health of females and people with poor socio-economic status is more affected by corruption; (3) the corruption-health negative link mainly occurs for cardiovascular diseases and ulcers; (4) only corrupted sectors linked with healthcare are associated with poorer health.
conclusionsWe inform the policy debate with novel results in establishing a nexus between corruption and morbidity indicators.
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