Other Resources
Here below are curated resources on strategic purchasing, health financing, primary healthcare and other areas relevant to SEARCH’s work.
Briefs and Blogs
- “Introduction to strategic purchasing.” SP4PHC, 2020.
- “Purchasing health services to respond to COVID-19 – how to involve and contract private sector providers in the South-East Asia Region?” Tsilaajav, Mathauer and de Oliveira Cruz, 2020.
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“How to purchase health services during a pandemic? Purchasing priorities to support the COVID-19 response.” UHC2030 / World Health Organization, 2020.” UHC2030 / World Health Organization, 2020.
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“Measuring Governance, Advocacy, and Power A Guide to Existing Indicators, Tools, and Indices.” Result for Development, 2020.
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“Q&A: What is strategic purchasing for health?” Result 4 Development, 2018.
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“Strategic purchasing: Expectations upon purchasers.” Meessen, 2017.
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“What is strategic purchasing for health?” Resilient & Responsive Health Systems, 2014.
Reports
- “Making progress on strategic health purchasing in Africa.” Strategic Purchasing for Africa Resource Centre, 2022.
- “Diagnosis-related groups (DRG): A Question & Answer guide on case-based classification and payment systems.” World Health Organization, 2020.
- “Strengthening health systems and access to care: Best practices in ASEAN.” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 2019.
- “Payments and contracting for integrated care.” The King’s Fund, 2019.
- “Purchasing health services for universal health coverage: how to make it more strategic?” World Health Organization, 2019.
- “Analytical Guide to Assess a Mixed Provider Payment System.” World Health Organization, 2019.
- “Governance for strategic health purchasing: An analytical framework to guide country assessment.” World Health Organization, 2019.
- “Unleashing the Potential of Strategic Purchasing.” USAID, 2018.
- “Resilient and people-centred health systems: progress, challenges and future directions in Asia.” World Health Organization, 2018.
- “What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage.” Center for Global Development, 2017.
- “Strategic purchasing for UHC: Key policy issues and questions – a summary from expert and practitioners’ discussions.” World Health Organization, 2017.
- “Strategic purchasing for Universal Health Coverage: Unlocking the potential – Global meeting summary and key messages” World Health Organization, 2017.
- “Paying for performance in health care: implications for health system performance and accountability” European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2014.
- “Pay for Performance (P4P) programs in health services: What is the evidence?” World Health Organization, 2010.
- “Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems.” The World Bank, 2009.
- “Public ends, private means: Strategic purchasing of health services.” The World Bank, 2007.
Articles
- “Health system governance: a triangle of rules.” Abimbola, 2020.
- “Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.” GBD 2019 Universal Health Coverage Collaborators, 2020.
- “Health care expenditure and health outcome nexus: new evidence from the SAARC-ASEAN region.” Rahman, Khanam and Rahman, 2018.
- “What’s needed to develop strategic purchasing in healthcare? Policy lessons from a realist review.” Sanderson, Lonsdale and Mannion, 2018.
- “Pay-for-Performance Debate: Not Seeing the Forest for the Tree.” Soucat et al., 2017.
- “Defining a health benefits package: What are the necessary processes?” Glassman et al., 2016.
- “The effectiveness of contracting-out primary health care services in developing countries: a review of the evidence.” Liu, Hotchkiss and Bose, 2008.
- “The impact of contracting-out on health system performance: A conceptual framework.” Liu, Hotchkiss and Bose, 2007.
