Is Performance-Based Financing A Pathway to Strategic Purchasing in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Synthesis of the Evidence. [PDF]
Health Syst 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 ...
Waithaka D, Cashin C, Barasa E.
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The Experiences of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare in Nine Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Qualitative Review. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 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
Sumankuuro J +6 more
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The challenges of strategic purchasing of healthcare services in Iran Health Insurance Organization: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Electron 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.
Gorji HA +4 more
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Health Systems and 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 ...
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Examining healthcare purchasing arrangements for strategic purchasing in Nigeria: a case study of the Imo state healthcare system. [PDF]
Health Res Policy Syst, 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.
Ezenduka C +3 more
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Strategic purchasing and the performance of health-care systems in upper middle income countries: A comparative study. [PDF]
J Educ Health Promot, 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
Hadian M, Mazaheri E, Jabbari A.
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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]
Int J Health Policy ManagStadhouders 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.
Greer SL.
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Components Affecting Pharmaceutical Strategic Purchasing: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Health Serv 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 ...
Bastani P +3 more
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Health Systems and 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 ...
Agnes Gatome-Munyua
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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 ...
Patcharanarumol W +5 more
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