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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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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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Introduction to the Special Issue on Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa
Health Systems & Reform, 2022 [Figure: see text]
Agnes Gatome-Munyua, Cheryl Cashin
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Well-functioning purchasing arrangements allocate pooled funds to health providers, and are expected to deliver efficient, effective, quality, equitable and responsive health services and advance progress toward universal health coverage (UHC).
Obinna Onwujekwe +5 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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The Government Budget: An Overlooked Vehicle for Advancing Strategic Health Purchasing
Health Systems & Reform, 2022 The most effective way to finance universal health coverage (UHC) is through compulsory prepaid funds that flow through the government budget. Public funds—including on-budget donor resources—allow for pooling and allocation of resources to providers in ...
Aloysius Ssennyonjo +6 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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Strategic Purchasing in Health System of Iran: A Review Study [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2018 Considering spiraling costs of management and delivery of health services, using principles of health economics is inevitable. World Health Organization in a report in 2000 emphasized on the use of strategic purchasing as a main strategy for achieving ...
Javad Ghoddousinejad +3 more
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SSM - Health SystemsEffective Strategic Health Purchasing (SHP) is pivotal for making progress towards the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), as we implement Primary Health Care (PHC).
Beatrice Namirembe +13 more
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Components that affect the Implementation of Health Services’ Strategic Purchasing: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature [PDF]
Electronic Physician, 2016 Introduction: Strategic purchasing is one of the mechanisms that can increase access, equity, and efficiency as well as the correct management of health resources.
Peivand Bastani +2 more
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