“Strategic” Purchasing: What Is It, How Are We Doing It, and Why?

The National Health Plan 2017-2021 (NHP) recognized the need for engagement with non-state providers of health care in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). The approach it recommended was to establish a national purchasing body to purchase services from both government and non-government providers. This is a substantial change from the way health services are currently paid for in Myanmar, whereby government funds flow only to government clinics in the form of salaries, medicines, allowances and operating expenses.

Publication Year:

2019

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SPARC

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Global Health; Science and Practice
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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…