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SPARC the Change: What the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center Has Learned about Improving Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa

Health Systems & Reform, 2022
Embodied in the goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are societal norms about ethics, equity, solidarity, and social justice. As African countries work toward UHC, it is important for their governments to use all available resources, knowledge, and ...
Cheryl Cashin, George Kimathi, Nathaniel Otoo, Danielle Bloom, Agnes Gatome-Munyua   +4 more
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The strategic fit between strategic purchasing and purchasing involvement: the moderating role of leadership styles [PDF]

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 2023
PurposeThe aim of this study is to investigate and examine the impact of strategic purchasing practices (SPP) on strategic-fit (SF) by analyzing the influence of SPP on purchasing involvement in business strategy formulation with path-goal theory leadership styles as moderators.Design/methodology/approachUsing survey data from 320 respondents ...
Loay Salhieh, Ala'a Mehiar, Ismail Abushaikha, Hendrik Reefke, Loay Bani-Ismail   +4 more
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Purchasing's strategic relevance [PDF]

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 2003
Recently Ramsay (2001) applied the resource based view of the firm (RBV) to argue that purchasing is a largely irrelevant activity from a strategic management point of view. In this paper it will be argued to the contrary on several grounds. First, it will be shown there is a much wider theoretical base underlying the field of strategic management ...
Mol, Michael J., Mol, M.J.
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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, Warisa Panichkriangkrai, Angkana Sommanuttaweechai, Kara Hanson, Yaowaluk Wanwong, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +5 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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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, Mahnaz Samadbeik, Yalda Kazemifard   +2 more
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Estimating the budget impact of a Tuberculosis strategic purchasing pilot study in Medan, Indonesia (2018–2019) [PDF]

Health Economics Review
Background 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, Firdaus Hafidz, Aditia Nugroho, Laurel Hatt, Meghan O’Connell, Agnes Caroline, Cheryl Cashin, Syed Imran, Yuli Farianti, Ackhmad Afflazier, Tiara Pakasi, Nurul Badriyah   +11 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 Open
Introduction Rapid urbanisation in Bangladesh has posed significant challenges to the urban health system, particularly in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC).
Helen Elsey, Rumana Huque, Zahidul Quayyum, Timothy Ensor, Bryony Dawkins, Fatema Kashfi, Baby Naznin, Farzana Sehrin, Garrett Wallace Brown   +8 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, Chris Lonsdale, Russell Mannion   +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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