Title: Corruption and public exclusion: a serious challenge to effective public policy on health

Authors: Babatunde Joshua Omotosho

Addresses: Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Ekiti State University, P.M.B 5363, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

Abstract: Corruption has become a household name in most developing countries globally as several people engage in it secretly and in the public. The usual norm in the time past was that corruption was limited to politicians but reverse is the case in recent times as public institutions and representatives of funding agencies in developing countries are becoming deeply involved in it. This has also led to mistrusts, pursuit of selfish aims and among others between the funding agencies, government and implementers. This has in turn brought a wide gap between the key players and members of the public as far as health policy is concerned. This paper therefore seeks to examine the dimensions and challenges of corruption among these actors as a major cause of public exclusion in health programmes in Nigeria.

Keywords: corruption; health policy; funding agencies; Nigeria; public exclusion; mistrust; government; healthcare management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2013.057364

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 2013 Vol.4 No.2, pp.144 - 157

Received: 04 Oct 2012
Accepted: 31 May 2013
Published online: 21 Jun 2014 *

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