Corruption in a Public Health Service as a Social and Legal Phenomenon: the Current State and Ways of Solutions

Abstract

The paper considers one of the most important problems of our timecorruption in a healthcare sphere. To reveal the essence of a corruption process in public health care, the issues of the concept corruption are analyzed, also some marks of corruption as a negative social and legal phenomenon are formulated, and a definition of corruption in public health care is represented. The considered types and kinds of corruption, the analyzed reasons and conditions giving rise to corruption, allow us to give a theoretical understanding of the scale of the destructive force of the impact of corruption on a contemporary system of providing medical care to the population. The assessment of the real state of corruption in a healthcare system, as well as the analysis of the sociological survey data, aimed at examining an opinion of the health care professionals on the issue under consideration, and the level of their legal awareness, make it possible to identify circumstances that make it difficult to investigate corruption crimes committed in a healthcare sector and make suggestions on the improvement of anti-corruption measures in this system. The research is based on a dialectical method that will allow us to consider the issue under study in a historical retrospective.