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Strengths and Weaknesses of Strategic Health Purchasing for Universal Health Coverage in Rwanda
Health Systems & Reform, 2022 In the context of scarce resources and increasing health care costs, strategic purchasing is viewed as a key mechanism to spur countries’ progress toward universal health coverage (UHC), by using limited resources more effectively.
Stella M. Umuhoza +7 more
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Challenges and Opportunities for Purchasing High-Quality Health Care: Lessons from Armenia
Health 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
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Strategic health purchasing is a key strategy in Burkina Faso to spur progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). However, a comprehensive analysis of existing health financing arrangements and their purchasing functions has not been undertaken to ...
Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo +5 more
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The impact of purchasing strategy-structure (mis)fit on purchasing cost and innovation performance [PDF]
, 2018 The organizational design literature strongly supports the notion of "structure follows strategy", and suggests that a misfit between the two has a negative effect on performance.
Melek Akın Ateş +9 more
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Purchasing under threat: Changes in shopping patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLoS ONE, 2021 The spreading of COVID-19 has led to panic buying all over the world. In this study, we applied an animal model framework to elucidate changes in human purchasing behavior under COVID-19 pandemic conditions.
Sebastian Schmidt +2 more
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Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice, 2015 Objective: The aim of this study was to review the current methods of pharmaceutical purchasing by Iranian insurance organizations within the World Bank conceptual framework model so as to provide applicable pharmaceutical resource allocation and ...
Peivand Bastani +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The spread of the COVID-19 virus shows that it is time to re-emphasize the ethical attitude of “awe of others, awe of nature, and awe of life.” It once again reveals the importance of green development. In this study, we introduce awe into the context of
Weihuan Su +4 more
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Electronic Physician, 2018 Background: Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health system reform around the world, especially Europe in the last decade.
Hasan Abolghasem Gorji +4 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Significant knowledge gaps exist in the functioning of institutional designs and organisational practices in purchasing within free healthcare schemes in low resource countries.
Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbuabor +1 more
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A critical analysis of purchasing arrangements in Kenya: the case of micro health insurance
BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Strategic purchasing can ensure that financial resources are used in a way that optimally enhances the attainment of health system goals.
Kenneth Munge +3 more
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