Does corruption affect health outcomes in the Philippines?

Abstract

Corruption, Decentralization, Health care, Service delivery, H4, I1, I2,

Does Decentralization Reform Always Increase Economic Growth?: A Cross Country Comparison of the Performance

“…Prior to 1992, in a fiscal sense, the Philippine's public finances were highly centralized with the central government and accounted for almost 92% of all public expenditures and more than 95% of all revenue collection (Azfar & Gurgur, 2008). Over the following three years, decentralization reduced these levels to 87.4 and 94.6%, respectively (Miller 1997).…”

Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries

“…The reform sought to eventually eliminate a structure that favoured incumbent firms and kept taxes and therefore prices of tobacco products low. Though the country has long endured a reputation for poor governance and corruption 195,196 , governments can change. In this case, there was strong overt support for the reform from the highest political levels, including the President, the finance minister, the commissioner of the revenue authority and the leaders in both houses of the national legislature 197,198 More importantly for countries seeking to replicate this success, the government successfully linked the reform strongly to health, both in terms of mitigating tobacco use but also by earmarking hypothecating the vast proportion of new revenues to providing universal health coverage to the country’s most vulnerable populations.…”

Geographically uneven landscapes of Asian corruption

“…In Vietnam, corruption has hampered the growth of the private sector but not that of the state (Nguyen and van Dijk 2012). Filipino elections are marred by fraud and vote-buying (Quimpo 2007); corruption has seriously impaired the country's public health system, including delays in vaccinations and increased waiting times at clinics, all of which affect poor and rural areas the most (Azfar and Gurgur 2008).…”