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Purchasing Health Services for Universal Health Coverage: How to Make It More Strategic?

This policy brief aims to show how strategic purchasing contributes to progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) and how countries can make their purchasing more strategic.

Publication Year:

2019

Publisher

Health Financing Policy Brief;6, 2019

Author:

Mathauer, Inke, et al.
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…

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