Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic Purchasing Fails [PDF]
Milbank Quarterly, 2020 Policy PointsStrategically purchasing health care has been and continues to be a popular policy idea around the world.Key asymmetries in information, market power, political power, and financial power hinder the effective implementation of strategic purchasing.Strategic purchasing has consistently failed to live up to its promises for these reasons ...
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Components Affecting Pharmaceutical Strategic Purchasing: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Health Services Insights, 2019 Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing is considered as a key to improve access to medicines especially for developing countries. The aim of this scoping review is to determine the most important components affecting pharmaceutical strategic purchasing ...
Peivand Bastani +3 more
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Is Performance-Based Financing A Pathway to Strategic Purchasing in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Synthesis of the Evidence [PDF]
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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The Experiences of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare in Nine Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Qualitative Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Background Efforts to move towards universal health coverage (UHC) aim to rebalance health financing in ways that increase efficiency, equity, and quality. Resource constraints require a shift from passive to strategic purchasing (SP). In this paper, we
Joshua Sumankuuro +6 more
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The challenges of strategic purchasing of healthcare services in Iran Health Insurance Organization: a qualitative study [PDF]
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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Examining healthcare purchasing arrangements for strategic purchasing in Nigeria: a case study of the Imo state healthcare system [PDF]
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2022 Background Strategic healthcare purchasing (SHP), as a critical function of health financing, enhances the optimal attainment of health system goals through the efficient use of financial resources.
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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 ...
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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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Strategic purchasing and the performance of health-care systems in upper middle income countries: A comparative study [PDF]
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021 BACKGROUND: Providing financial resources for health services is one of the most important issues in the study of health systems, of which purchasing health services is very essential. The World Health Organization considers strategic purchasing as a key
Marziye Hadian +2 more
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Why Must We Keep Discussing Strategic Purchasing and Managed Competition?; Comment on “Measuring Active Purchasing in Healthcare: Analysing Reallocations of Funds Between Providers to Evaluate Purchasing Systems Performance in the Netherlands” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementStadhouders and colleagues’ new measure answers an important question: Do strategic purchasing and managed competition redirect healthcare resources, and, if so, when, how, and to what? Applying it to the Netherlands, they find that they do not.
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