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What’s Needed to Develop Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare? Policy Lessons from a Realist Review

This paper proposes that the theories of economics of organization (EOO) are insufficient for a full understanding of strategic purchasing in healthcare, because they focus on safeguarding against poor performance and ignore the coordination and adaptation needed to improve performance. The paper suggest that insights from other, complementary theories are needed.

Publication Year:

2018

Publisher

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, vol. 8, no. 1, Feb. 2018, pp. 4–17., doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.93

Author:

Sanderson, Joe, 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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