Strategic Purchasing: The Neglected Health Financing Function for Pursuing Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The academic literature on strategic purchasing, together with related literature on contracting of health services, has long adopted principal-agent and transaction cost economics as its main theoretical underpinning. The recent paper by Sanderson et al2 substantially augments the traditional theoretical perspectives on strategic purchasing by adding insights from the literature on the theories of inter-organizational relationships.

Publication Year:

2019

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

National Center for Biotechnology Information
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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…