Table 2 Informal payments for health care services by type of payments
Hospital type | All (user N = 2696) | Public teaching (use N = 1839) | Private (user N = 525) | Social Security (user N = 332) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Who received IP | Physician | Other staff* | Physician | Other staff* | Physician | Other staff* | Physician | Other staff* | |
Type of payment | Observed frequency, n (%) | Observed frequency, n (%) | Observed frequency, n (%) | Observed frequency, n (%) | |||||
Form | Cash | 151 (5.6) | 256 (9.5) | 114 (6.2) | 72 (3.9) | 32 (6.1) | 180 (34.3) | 5 (1.5) | 4 (1.2) |
In kind | 0 (0.0) | 24 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 24 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
Cash and in-kind | 8 (0.3) | 11 (0.4) | 4 (0.2) | 3 (0.2) | 4 (0.8) | 8 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
Incentive | Voluntary | 36 (1.3) | 265 (9.8) | 36 (2.0) | 99 (5.4) | .ª | 162 (30.9) | .ª | 4 (1.2) |
By request | 71 (2.6) | 36 (1.3) | 37 (2.0) | 10 (0.5) | 32 (6.1) | 26 (5.0) | 2 (0.6) | .ª | |