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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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Assessing the progress and gaps in strategic health purchasing in Kenya [PDF]
Wellcome Open Research, 2021 Background: Kenya has committed to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and prioritised purchasing reforms. Existing evidence indicates that purchasing can be leveraged to achieve health system objectives when done strategically.
Jacob Kazungu +2 more
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have implemented performance-based financing (PBF) to improve health system performance. Much of the debate and analysis relating to PBF has focused on whether PBF “works”—that is, whether it leads to improvements in ...
Dennis Waithaka +2 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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What is strategic purchasing for health? [PDF]
, 2014 Ever since the publication of the 2000 World Health Report, there has been a growing awareness that health financing is not simply about raising money. Instead, there are three key functions of health financing: revenue generation, pooling and purchasing.
Honda, Ayako
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Strategic purchasing for universal health coverage: examining the purchaser–provider relationship within a social health insurance scheme in Nigeria [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 Background In an attempt to achieve universal health coverage, Nigeria introduced a number of health insurance schemes. One of them, the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme (FSSHIP), was launched in 2005 to provide health cover to federal government and formal private sector employees.
Etiaba, Enyi +5 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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Health Policy Open, 2023 This study discusses findings from comparative case studies of the governance of health services purchasing agencies in 10 eastern European and central Asian countries established over the past 30 years, and the relationship between governance attributes,
Loraine Hawkins +3 more
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Strategic purchasing and health system efficiency: A comparison of two financing schemes in Thailand. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Strategic purchasing is an essential health financing function. This paper compares the strategic purchasing practices of Thailand's two tax-financed health insurance schemes, the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) and the Civil Servant Medical Benefit ...
Walaiporn Patcharanarumol +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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