“India’s strategic purchasing journey is off to a fast start”: In conversation with health financing expert Jack Langenbrunner
The success of the financing process for healthcare services depends on the performance of three important functions: revenue collection, pooling of resources, and purchasing of services and interventions. Traditionally, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance in India have “purchased” health “passively”, i.e., allocated spending based online-item inputs (salaries, drugs, utilities linked to […]