{"id":987536359,"date":"2022-09-13T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/virtual-launch-of-the-health-systems-and-reform-journal-special-issue-making-progress-on-strategic-health-purchasing-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:30:33","slug":"virtual-launch-of-the-health-systems-and-reform-journal-special-issue-making-progress-on-strategic-health-purchasing-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/virtual-launch-of-the-health-systems-and-reform-journal-special-issue-making-progress-on-strategic-health-purchasing-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Launch of the Health Systems and Reform Journal Special Issue: Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sparc.africa\/\">Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre<\/a> (SPARC)\u2014a resource hub hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/amref.org\/\">Amref Health Africa<\/a> with technical support from <a href=\"https:\/\/r4d.org\/\">Results for Development (R4D)<\/a>\u2014 co-created the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23288604.2022.2051794\">Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework<\/a> with eleven technical partners, and applied the framework in nine countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a special issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/khsr20\/8\/2\">Health Systems &amp; Reform Journal<\/a>, SPARC and the technical partners share findings applying the framework and shed light on the political, technical and operations challenges countries face implementing strategic purchasing approaches and practical lessons for overcoming these challenges.<\/p>\n<p>At this webinar, SPARC and the technical partners will discuss key messages from the papers \u2013 why strategic health purchasing is critical for Africa, findings applying the framework, evidence that strategic health purchasing leads to service delivery improvements and the future for strategic health purchasing in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dad8b9df174ea213e71a9206e&amp;id=d7600cd41d&amp;e=289a914f51\">REGISTER&nbsp;NOW<\/a> to participate in the webinar.<\/p>\n<p><b>Event Time : <\/b>29 Sep 2022 1:00 pm to 29 Sep 2022 4:00 pm<br \/><b>Timezone: <\/b>UTC+03:00<br \/><b>Event is Conference : <\/b>No<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC)\u2014a resource hub hosted by Amref Health Africa with technical support from Results for Development (R4D)\u2014 co-created the Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework with eleven technical partners, and applied the framework in nine countries. In a special issue of the Health Systems &amp; Reform Journal, SPARC and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[132],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987536359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987536359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987536359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987536359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987536359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987536359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}