Scaling-up Strategic Purchasing: Analysis of Health System Governance Imperatives for Strategic Purchasing in a Free Maternal and Child Healthcare Programme in Enugu State, Nigeria
The study provides evidence of the governance requirements to scale up strategic purchasing in free healthcare policies in Nigeria and other low-resource settings using similar approaches.
Publication Year:
2018
Publisher
BMC Health Services Research, vol. 18, no. 1, May 2018, doi:10.1186/s12913-018-3078-x
Author:
Ogbuabor, Daniel Chukwuemeka, and Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe.
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…