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Has Strategic Purchasing Led to Improvements in Health Systems? A Narrative Review of Literature on Strategic Purchasing

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2022
Strategic purchasing is noted in the literature as an approach that can improve the efficiency of health spending, increase equity in access to health care services, improve the quality of health care delivery, and advance progress toward universal ...
Fred Matovu   +2 more
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SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2022
Embodied in the goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are societal norms about ethics, equity, solidarity, and social justice. As African countries work toward UHC, it is important for their governments to use all available resources, knowledge, and ...
Cheryl Cashin   +4 more
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Strategic Health Purchasing in Nigeria: Investigating Governance and Institutional Capacities within Federal Tax-Funded Health Schemes and the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2022
For Nigeria to make progress on its commitment to universal health coverage, additional public funding will be required. But more resources alone will not be enough.
Uchenna Ezenwaka   +7 more
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Green Purchasing – A Cross-sectoral Analysis of Drivers and Practices

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie, 2022
Objective: This article examines the scope of the implementation of green purchasing (GP), the drivers for its implementation and the use of green purchasing practices (GPP) in selected sectors of Poland’s B2B (Business to Business) economy.
Piotr C. Sosnowski
doaj   +1 more source

A Joint Framework for Category Purchase and Consumption Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
textabstractWe propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand choice and purchase quantity. The approach differs from other approaches, currently available in the literature, as it is able to take into account consumption dynamics.
Rutger van Oest   +2 more
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Can Strategic Health Purchasing Reduce Inefficiency and Corruption in the Health Sector? The Case of Nigeria

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2022
Despite limited government budgets for health in many sub-Saharan African countries, some countries have improved health outcomes at low cost by being strategic in allocating and spending available resources.
Obinna Onwujekwe, Prince Agwu
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Analysis of Purchasing Arrangements in Kenya: The Case of the National Hospital Insurance Fund [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Background Purchasing refers to the process by which pooled funds are paid to providers in order to deliver a set of health care interventions. Very little is known about purchasing arrangements in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and certainly
Kenneth Munge   +3 more
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PARASOCIAL INTERACTIONS FOR ENHANCING PURCHASE DECISIONS: PERSPECTIVES OF SERVICE DOMINANT LOGIC THEORY

open access: yesJurnal Ilmiah Manajemen dan Bisnis, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis is sweeping the world and affecting our lives, including consumer purchasing habits, preferences, and decisions. The survey, involving 251 respondents from Bali, Indonesia, examined how the pandemic affected Bali's purchasing ...
Nilna Muna   +2 more
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Exploring the influence of ICT on sustainability in supply management: Evidence and directions for research

open access: yesCleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 2022
This paper explores the influence of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption on sustainability practices in purchasing and supply management (PSM) as well as its effects on purchasing performance.
Pietro Evangelista, Jukka Hallikas
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Challenges and Opportunities for Purchasing High-Quality Health Care: Lessons from Armenia

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2021
This paper examines how purchasing decisions in Armenia may contribute to barriers in using high-quality health care, particularly for non-communicable diseases, drawing on a review of the literature and key informant interviews.
Adanna Chukwuma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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