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Designing a strategic purchasing framework for urban primary healthcare services in Bangladesh: a protocol for a mixed-method study with a discrete choice experiment [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction Rapid urbanisation in Bangladesh has posed significant challenges to the urban health system, particularly in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC).
Timothy Ensor, Fatema Kashfi, Farzana Sehrin, Garrett Wallace Brown   +3 more
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Strengthening accountability in strategic health purchasing arrangements for primary health care in Uganda

SSM - Health Systems
Effective 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, Brenda Nakimuli, Aloysious Ssennyonjo, Perez Ochanda, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Boniface Mbuthia, Moreen Mwenda, Lizah Nyawira, Joseph Githinji, Richard Ssempala, Chrispus Mayora, Sarah Byakika, Aliyi Walimbwa, Freddie Ssengooba   +13 more
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Reconfiguring health purchasing for universal health coverage: insights from Nepal with relevance to low- and middle-income countries [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Nepal’s transition to federalism and the rollout of the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) marked critical steps toward universal health coverage.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Saroj Adhikari, Bhuvan Saud   +2 more
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Strategic purchasing tactics of health services: a systematic review in cancer [PDF]

فصلنامه ابن سینا, 2019
Background: A strategic purchasing is the best way of a win-win situation between a buyer and a service provider. It promotes the financial performance of the health system, protects patients financially, and provides them with appropriate services. This
Samereh Yaghoubian, Ghahraman Mahmoudi, Mohammad-Ali Jahani   +2 more
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A comprehensive review on strategic purchasing of diagnostic imaging services [PDF]

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Diagnostic imaging services are one of the rapidly growing services in the healthcare industry and policymakers consider containing the cost of such services as a way to reduce the total cost of healthcare services.
Abdollah Soltan-Tajian, Alireza Jabbari, Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh   +2 more
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Scaling-up strategic purchasing: analysis of health system governance imperatives for strategic purchasing in a free maternal and child healthcare programme in Enugu State, Nigeria [PDF]

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, Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe   +1 more
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Strategic Purchasing for Better Health in Armenia [PDF]

, 2020
This report is an activity under the technical support towards universal health coverage in Armenia, which includes advisory services and analytics aimed at supporting the government’s efforts to expand access to high-quality health care. The report, Strategic Purchasing for Better Health in Armenia, draws on an adaptation of the strategic purchasing ...
Adanna Chukwuma, Meessen, Bruno, Hratchia Lylozian, Gong, Estelle, Ghazaryan, Emma   +4 more
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Assessment of strategic healthcare purchasing and financial autonomy in Tanzania: the case of results-based financing and health basket fund

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundLow-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are implementing health financing reforms toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In Tanzania direct health facility financing of health basket funds (DHFF-HBF) scheme was introduced in 2017/18, while the
John Maiba, Neha S. Singh, Rachel Cassidy, Rachel Cassidy, Gemini Mtei, Josephine Borghi, Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Peter Binyaruka   +7 more
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A critical assessment of strategic health purchasing in Benin's health financing schemes and the implications for universal health coverage

SSM - Health Systems
Several reforms are underway in Benin to improve strategic health purchasing. This study examines th⁠e extent to which purchasing mechanisms in Benin are strategic, highlighting pr⁠ogress made, persistent challenges, and implications for achieving ...
Cossi Xavier Agbeto, Christelle Boyi, Noudéhouénou Credo Adelphe Ahissou, Hashim Hounkpatin, Nihad Jessica Eyitayo Agoligan Tometin, Arsène Yades, Agnes Gatome-Munya, Jean-Paul Dossou   +7 more
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Is Performance-Based Financing A Pathway to Strategic Purchasing in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Synthesis of the Evidence

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, Cheryl Cashin, Edwine Barasa   +2 more
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