What is it about?
Corruption has found very fertile ground in the health sector. Many studies demonstrate the negative relationship between sustainability and corruption. However, relatively little is known at this time about how to prevent corruption in healthcare organizations (HCOs), and thus to recover the important sustainability of the entire healthcare system. After noticing this gap in the literature, theauthors’aiminundertakingthisstudywastwofold: first,toanalyzethecurrentstateofknowledge about how Italian HCOs adopt corruption prevention plans in compliance with the National Plan issued by the National Anti-Corruption Authority; second, to identify some clusters of HCOs which represent different adoption patterns of corruption prevention interventions and to classify these HCOs.
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Why is it important?
The empirical results showed that the HCOs were not fully compliant with the anti-corruption legislation. At the same time, the authors identified three clusters of HCOs with different patterns of anti-corruption prevention interventions. The clusters that adopted some specific interventions seemed to be more sustainable than others.
Perspectives
Concerning future research, the authors believe that scholars should analyze how the planning of anti-corruption measures can be effectively implemented, in addition to developing a cross-country and longitudinal analysis.
prof pietro previtali
university of pavia
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This page is a summary of: The Prevention of Corruption as an Unavoidable Way to Ensure Healthcare System Sustainability, Sustainability, August 2018, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/su10093071.
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