Corruption and its relation to prevalence and death due to noncommunicable diseases and risk factors: a global perspective
Objective
To describe the relation between corruption indicators and statistics on noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors by continent.
Methods
An ecological study was conducted to examine the relation of the GINI coefficient, the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) with noncommunicable diseases, using the Spearman’s rank correlation test.