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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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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 OpenIntroduction Rapid urbanisation in Bangladesh has posed significant challenges to the urban health system, particularly in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC).
Timothy Ensor +3 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 +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 +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 ...
Bruno Meessen +4 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 +3 more
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SSM - Health SystemsSeveral 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 +7 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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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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Strategic Purchasing as an Evidence-Based Approach for Reducing Medical Overuse
Health Technology Assessment in Action, 2023 Overuse of healthcare services is an increasingly reported issue in health systems worldwide. Given the breadth and importance of the subject, identifying strategies/tools that can prevent medical overuse is beneficial.
Morteza Arab-Zozani +2 more
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