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Applying the Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework: Lessons from Nine African Countries [PDF]
Health Systems & Reform, 2022 The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) developed a framework for tracking strategic purchasing that uses a functional and practical approach to describe, assess, and strengthen purchasing to facilitate policy dialogue within countries ...
Agnes Gatome-Munyua +10 more
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Strategic Health Purchasing for Universal Health Coverage in Rwanda [PDF]
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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Health 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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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Strategic purchasing of high-priority services is a critical part of effective spending to advance UHC goals. Available conceptual frameworks for strategic purchasing have facilitated high-level advocacy and policy dialogue, and they have framed research
Cheryl Cashin, Agnes Gatome-Munyua
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Ghana is a lower-middle-income economy that has made significant efforts to improve its health system, in order to achieve universal health coverage.
Eugenia Amporfu +4 more
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Health 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 Progress Mapping in Cameroon: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Health Systems & Reform, 2021 Many low- and middle-income countries are adopting far-reaching health financing policies using strategic health purchasing (SHP) approaches to address their health sector challenges.
Isidore Sieleunou +4 more
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Health 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
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Strategic Purchasing Arrangements in Uganda and Their Implications for Universal Health Coverage
Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Several purchasing arrangements coexist in Uganda, creating opportunities for synergy but also leading to conflicting incentives and inefficiencies in resource allocation and purchasing functions.
Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho +7 more
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Strategic purchasing means deliberately directing health funds to priority populations, interventions, and services. This is done by actively creating incentives so funding is used equitably and efficiently and is aligned with population health needs ...
Agnes Gatome-Munyua +2 more
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