Moving Medicine, Moving Minds: Helping Developing Countries Overcome Barriers to Outsourcing Health Commodity Distribution to Boost Supply Chain Performance and Strengthen Health Systems

Senegal and other developing countries are improving access to health commodities by outsourcing supply chain logistics to private providers. To achieve broader, lasting reform, we must support further adoption of the outsourced model; assist country-led cost-benefit analyses; and help governments b...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Priya, Barton, Iain, Bianco, Roberto Dal, Hovig, Dana, Sarley, David, Yadav, Prashant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27688714
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130
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description Senegal and other developing countries are improving access to health commodities by outsourcing supply chain logistics to private providers. To achieve broader, lasting reform, we must support further adoption of the outsourced model; assist country-led cost-benefit analyses; and help governments build capacity to manage contracts and overcome other barriers.
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spelling pubmed-50426922016-10-06 Moving Medicine, Moving Minds: Helping Developing Countries Overcome Barriers to Outsourcing Health Commodity Distribution to Boost Supply Chain Performance and Strengthen Health Systems Agrawal, Priya Barton, Iain Bianco, Roberto Dal Hovig, Dana Sarley, David Yadav, Prashant Glob Health Sci Pract Viewpoint Senegal and other developing countries are improving access to health commodities by outsourcing supply chain logistics to private providers. To achieve broader, lasting reform, we must support further adoption of the outsourced model; assist country-led cost-benefit analyses; and help governments build capacity to manage contracts and overcome other barriers. Global Health: Science and Practice 2016-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5042692/ /pubmed/27688714 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130 Text en © Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130.
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