dc.contributor.author | Rönnerstrand, Björn | |
dc.contributor.author | Lapuente, Victor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-05T07:51:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-05T07:51:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1653-8919 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/38816 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To investigate the association between two measures of corruption – prevalence of
corruption in the health sector and prevalence of bribes in the society – and antibiotic consumption
in the European regions. Methods: Data on the dependent variable antibiotic consumption on the
regional level comes from the 2009 Special Euro Barometer Survey. Measures of the two independent
variables corruption in the health care sector and bribes in the society come from the European
Quality of Government Index. Correlation coefficients were calculated to investigate the bivariate
correlation between the independent variables health sector corruption and prevalence of bribes
and the dependent variable antibiotic consumption. A multivariate regression model was built to
investigate the association between corruption and bribes in relation to antibiotics, taking the potential
confounders purchasing power standardized regional GDP, regional quality of health care,
inhabitants per medical doctor, and age-standardized all case mortality rates into consideration.
Results: Strong and significant bivariate correlations between both corruption in the health sector
and prevalence of bribes in society and antibiotic consumption in the European regions were
found. In a multivariate regression model including confounders, the associations were persistent
and strong. Conclusions: This paper demonstrates that dysfunctional regulatory systems and poor
enforcement mechanisms seem to be factors accounting for some of the between-region variation
in antibiotic consumption in Europe. | sv |
dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2015:5 | sv |
dc.relation.uri | http://qog.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1519/1519232_2015_5_r--nnerstrand_lapuente.pdf | sv |
dc.subject | antibiotic use | sv |
dc.subject | corruption | sv |
dc.subject | bribery | sv |
dc.subject | Europe | sv |
dc.subject | regions | sv |
dc.title | Corruption and Antibiotic Use in the European Regions | sv |
dc.type | Text | sv |
dc.contributor.organization | QoG Institute | sv |