How Different Motivations for Making Informal Out-Of-Pocket Payments Vary in Their Influence on Users’ Satisfaction with Healthcare, Local and National Government, and Satisfaction with Life?

Background. The dominant view in the literature is that informal payments in healthcare universally are a negative phenomenon. By contrast, we theorize that the motivation healthcare users for making informal payments (IP) can be classified into three categories: (1) a cultural norm, (2) “grease the...

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Main Authors: Nazim Habibov, Alena Auchynnikava, Lida Fan, Yunhong Lyu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5763003