The Impacts of Corruption on Lebanon’s Public HealthGjertsson, S.April 2021UI Brief No. 3

There has been a assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri lack of focus in previous studies on in 2005 and regular violent conflict and corruption and its links to public health, political turmoil, as well as the spillover from which means that the consequences for the the Syrian Civil War and the related refugee field are yet to be explored and pinpointing crisis, high levels of corruption an. [...] diseases, in contrast to the levels of communicable diseases that can spread The high level of privatisation means that it from person to person, such as tuberculosis, is estimated that roughly 35% of HIV and measles.37 hospitalisation costs and 65% of all healthcare expenses are paid for directly by Lebanon had the highest levels of cancer in the recipient.34 Furthermore, economic and the MENA re. [...] capacity building and resource provision.39 Of the 188 PHCCs included in the study by This raises the issue of accessibility: who can Hemadeh et al., only 88.7% reported the access the PHCCs and who has access to availability of six types of basic equipment; those PHCCs that have passed the 85.4% fulfilled all means of communication requirements of the accreditation requirements; 48.5% fulfilled b. [...] The country has experienced many Two causes of the large informal sector in turbulent times in the post-war era, from the Lebanon are the legal restrictions on assassination of Rafiq Hariri to mass refugees undertaking waged labour and the protests, armed conflict, refugee crises, and high level of unemployment. [...] healthcare in the rural areas.73 74 There is also Even though the reimbursement system was a general shortage of nurses in the PHCCs, at ended in the early 2000s, the decade in only 2.72 per 1000 population compared to which it lasted made it possible for private 4.05 in Jordan, and most of these nurses companies, public officials, and even work in the larger medical centres and politicians to ben.