Introduction

This book considers the causes, costs and consequences of healthcare corruption.  The causes of healthcare corruption is manifold, with the costs - financial and human - and consequences one of pain, disease and death. This book, broad in its approach, thus highlights corruption within and across the different healthcare provision in organizations such as hospitals and healthcare equipment specialists, and private health insurance sector, and individuals such a doctors, dentists and nurses. All of these sectors and individuals are victims of healthcare corruption but also contribute to it; this book is thus a critical and interdisciplinary examination of the reach and depth of the broad church of healthcare corruption.