The relationship between corruption and chronic diseases: evidence from Europeans aged 50 years and older
Lorenzo Ferrari (lorenzo.ferrari@uniroma2.it) and
Francesco Salustri
Additional contact information
Lorenzo Ferrari: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
International Journal of Public Health, 2020, vol. 65, issue 3, No 18, 345-355
Abstract:
Abstract Objectives Do people living in more corrupted countries report worse health? We answer this question by investigating the relationship between country-level corruption and the number of chronic diseases for a sample of Europeans aged above 50. Methods We link a rich panel dataset on individual health and socio-demographic characteristics with two country-level corruption indices, analyse the overall relationship with pooled ordinary least squares and fixed-effect models, explore heterogeneous effects driven by country and individual factors, and disentangle the effect across different public sectors. Results Individuals living in more corrupted countries suffer from a higher number of chronic diseases. The heterogeneity analysis shows that (1) health outcomes are worsened especially for respondents living in relatively low-income countries; (2) the health of females and people with poor socio-economic status is more affected by corruption; (3) the corruption–health negative link mainly occurs for cardiovascular diseases and ulcers; (4) only corrupted sectors linked with healthcare are associated with poorer health. Conclusions We inform the policy debate with novel results in establishing a nexus between corruption and morbidity indicators.
Keywords: Corruption; Public health; Chronic diseases; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)
Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00038-020-01347-w Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:65:y:2020:i:3:d:10.1007_s00038-020-01347-w
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/00038
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01347-w
Access Statistics for this article
International Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Thomas Kohlmann, Nino Künzli and Andrea Madarasova Geckova
More articles in International Journal of Public Health from Springer, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla (sonal.shukla@springer.com) and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (indexing@springernature.com).