Using a policy learning lens to understand health financing policy outcomes: the case of translating strategic health purchasing into policy and practice in Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) through an effective health financing system is a challenge for many low-income countries. Learning is key to success due to many uncertainties and unknowns. Using the case of translating strategic health purchasing into policy and practice in Burkina Faso, our study seeks to understand how policy learning can shape policy processes and outcomes.

Methods

We used a qualitative case study design and Dunlop and Radaelli's conceptualisation of policy learning to identify which modes of learning did or did not occur, what helped or hindered them and the resulting policy outcomes. Dunlop and Radaelli frame policy learning as epistemic, reflexive, negotiative or hierarchical. We collected data through documentary review and in-

SUBMITTER: Kiendrebeogo JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575319 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature