Adjustments in purchasing arrangements to support the COVID-19 health sector response: evidence from eight middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered several changes in countries' health purchasing arrangements to accompany the adjustments in service delivery in order to meet the urgent and additional demands for COVID-19-related services. However, evidence on how these adjustments have played out in low- and middle-income countries is scarce. This paper provides a synthesis of a multi-country study of the adjustments in purchasing arrangements for the COVID-19 health sector response in eight middle-income countries (Armenia, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Romania and Ukraine). We use secondary data assembled by country teams, as well as applied thematic analysis to examine the adjustments made to funding arrangements, benefits packages, provider payments, contracting, information manag

SUBMITTER: Parmar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883665 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature