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Corruption and use of antibiotics in regions of Europe
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Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate the association between corruption and antibiotic use at sub-national level. We explore the correlation between, on the one hand, two measures of corruption (prevalence of corruption in the health sector and prevalence of bribes in the society) at regional l... mehr
The aim of this article is to investigate the association between corruption and antibiotic use at sub-national level. We explore the correlation between, on the one hand, two measures of corruption (prevalence of corruption in the health sector and prevalence of bribes in the society) at regional level from the European Quality of Government Index; and, on the other, the consumption of antibiotics in those European regions from a 2009 Special Euro Barometer. In a multivariate regression model, we control for potential confounders: purchasing power of standardized regional gross domestic product, inhabitants per medical doctor and age-standardized all-cause mortality rates. We find that there is a strong positive association between both measures of corruption (i.e. in the health sector, and in the society at large) and antibiotics use; and that this association is robust to the introduction of the control variables. These results support previous findings in the literature linking corruption to higher antibiotic use at cross-national level. We show that corruption does seem to account for some of the remarkable between-region variation in antibiotic consumption in Europe.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Korruption; Europa; Region; Arzneimittel; Korrelation; Konsum; Konsumverhalten; Regressionsanalyse
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
soziale Probleme
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Antibiotic use; Bribery; European Quality of Government Index 2013; Special Eurobarometer 338
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 250-256
Zeitschriftentitel
Health Policy, 121 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Pharmaceutical policies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.12.010
ISSN
0168-8510
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0