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Rapid Assessment of Strategic Purchasing in the Philippines: A Country Case Study

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  • de Claro, Vergil

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For many resource-constrained settings, challenges in financing mainly revolve around how to mobilize more resources for health, ensure that there is proper allocation of these resources, and use it as a leverage to shape provider behavior. In the Philippines, the state-run social health insurance is uniquely positioned to centralize health financing and can use this to shape the health market behavior. This is even more important, as the Philippines finally moves closer to its goal of universal coverage. The existing economic and political support offers a window of opportunity to create that leverage. Taking stock of the strengths and weaknesses of its current purchasing situation provides a strong basis for developing an action plan to enhance its health reform initiatives moving forward.

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  • de Claro, Vergil, 2018. "Rapid Assessment of Strategic Purchasing in the Philippines: A Country Case Study," EconStor Research Reports 238680, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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    1. Pantig, Ida Marie T. & Ulep, Valerie Gilbert T. & Picazo, Oscar F. & Ho, Beverly Lorraine C., 2015. "A Critical Analysis of Purchasing of Health Services in the Philippines: A Case Study of PhilHealth," Discussion Papers DP 2015-54, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    2. Picazo, Oscar F. & Ho, Beverly Lorraine C. & Ulep, Valerie Gilbert T. & Pantig, Ida Marie T., 2015. "A Critical Analysis of Purchasing of Health Services in the Philippines: A Case Study of PhilHealth," Research Paper Series DP 2015-54, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
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    1. Klein, Aurélie & de Claro, Vergil & Devadasan, Narayanan & Kiendrébéogo, Joël Arthur & Rivillas, Juan Carlos, 2018. "Strategic Purchasing: Lessons from Four Country Assessments in Burkina Faso, Colombia, Karnataka (India) and the Philippines," EconStor Research Reports 222981, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

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