Strategic purchasing for nutrition in primary health care: overview

Overview

This document aims to provide an overview of strategic purchasing of nutrition services within primary health care. It introduces key terms and payment methods for countries to use in preparing to transform their health financial systems to scale up nutrition services. It does so by introducing nutritional perspectives to strategic health purchasing core areas: What to buy (specification of services and interventions), From whom to buy (choice of providers), and How to buy (design of financial and non-financial incentives for provider payment mechanisms and contractual arrangements).

This publication was developed to ensure that nutrition services are not left behind by increasing knowledge and build further understanding of strategic purchasing for nutrition services, particularly for ministries of health and nutrition programme managers and project officers who oversee purchasing of nutrition in health services and other ministries.

This document is complemented by the publication Strategic purchasing for nutrition in primary health care: A proposed diagnostic assessment approach. Please visit the link below.