Purchasing for health, which includes what, how, and from whom services are purchased, was one of the policy levers available to countries as part of their health systems’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Romania faces high levels of amenable mortality reflecting, in part, the relatively low utilization rates of high-quality primary health care (PHC), particularly for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention...
This paper examines how political priority was generated for comprehensive reforms to address inequitable access to high-quality primary health care (PHC) in Romania. We apply John Kingdon’s model of political...