Corruption and Users in Douala-Cameroon Public Hospitals: An Evaluation of Determinants
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Date
2018-01-30
Authors
Bayemi, Oscar
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African Economic Research consortium
Abstract
This paper examines the factors that determine an individual's exposure to corruption
in public hospitals in Douala, Cameroon. A survey of 407 users who attended these
hospitals revealed corruption to be prevalent in services that are offered in sections
such as reception, hospitalization and the drugstore. Estimates obtained through odds
ratios reveal that in general, the determinants of a user’s exposure to corruption vary
from one hospital to another and even from one service to another. For example, in the
hospitalization service of the General hospital, these determinants are: Income above
250,000 FCFA, gender (male), educational level below university, and age over 40
years. On the contrary, in the hospitalization service of the Bonassama hospital, it is
an income below 250,000 FCFA, woman, educational level below university, and age
below 40 years. However, the educational level below university appears as a common
determinant of corruption in all services and almost all hospitals. This allowed us to
propose a typology of hospitals based on the factors behind this phenomenon.
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Corruption, , Public hospitals, , Prevalence rate, , Odds ratio, , Cameroon.