Strategic purchasing for nutrition in primary health care: a proposed diagnostic assessment approach

Overview

This document aims to strengthen the understanding of how nutrition services can be incentivized within purchasing arrangements for primary health care (PHC) to improve the quality, coverage and efficiency. The document builds on Strategic purchasing for nutrition in primary health care: Overview (please visit link below) and proposes a diagnostic approach for systematic assessment of how nutrition services are purchased within existing health purchasing arrangements.

The document proposes an approach to be used by country teams to document and assess the place of nutrition in broader PHC purchasing arrangements, within a tested, established PHC purchasing framework. It provides four steps and 28 guiding questions to help governments and other stakeholders to become more strategic in purchasing nutrition services within PHC.