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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Health Systems and Reform, 2022 Ghana is a lower-middle-income economy that has made significant efforts to improve its health system, in order to achieve universal health coverage.
Anthony Kwaku Edusei +2 more
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A comprehensive review on strategic purchasing of diagnostic imaging services [PDF]
Journal of Education and Health PromotionDiagnostic 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 +2 more
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Components that affect the Implementation of Health Services’ Strategic Purchasing: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature [PDF]
Electronic Physician, 2016 Introduction: Strategic purchasing is one of the mechanisms that can increase access, equity, and efficiency as well as the correct management of health resources.
Peivand Bastani +2 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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Estimating the budget impact of a Tuberculosis strategic purchasing pilot study in Medan, Indonesia (2018–2019) [PDF]
Health Economics ReviewBackground Indonesia has the world’s second-highest tuberculosis (TB) burden, with 969,000 annual TB infections. In 2017, Indonesia faced significant challenges in TB care, with 18% of cases missed, 29% of diagnosed cases unreported, and 55.4% of ...
Sarah Saragih +11 more
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What’s Needed to Develop Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare? Policy Lessons from a Realist Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019 Background In the context of serious concerns over the affordability of healthcare, various authors and international policy bodies advise that strategic purchasing is a key means of improving health system performance. Such advice is typically informed
Joe Sanderson +2 more
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Strategic purchases in the enterprise – theoretical and practical approach
Nowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania, 2021 In the mid-1990s, the literature began to emphasize the role of strategic procurement management, as it is important in strengthening and creating a purchasing function in the organizational structure.
Paweł Wereda, Aneta Wysokińska-Senkus
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Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing: a key to improve access to medicines. [PDF]
Iran J Pharm Res, 2015 Pharmaceuticals are often considered as the most significant cost driver of health care expenditures and at the same time have a major impact on patients’ curative processes and outcomes. Other pieces of evidence emphasize that drugs are the input for the production of good health.
Mehralian G, Bastani P.
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Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice, 2016 Objective: Pharmaceutical access for the poor is an essential factor in developing countries that can be improved through strategic purchasing. This study was conducted to identify the elements affecting price in order to enable insurance organizations ...
Peivand Bastani +3 more
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