Journal of Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-6488
ISSN: 2329-6488
Department of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equipment Management, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia
Review Article
Outsourcing a Means for Strengthening the Health Care Supply Chain Management: A Narrative Review
Author(s): Habtamu Solomon Mengistu*, Manaye Tamrie Derseh, Abinet Abebe Zewdu, Kaleab Taye Haile, Biniam Bahiru and Abyou Seyfu Ambaye
Outsourcing is the movement of business processes from inside the organization to third party service providers who in turn owns, administrates and manages the selected process, based upon defined and measurable performance metrics. The aim of this study is to see whether outsourcing is useful in strengthening the health care supply chain management. Narrative review was conducted by analyzing secondary data from four research databases and nonpublished documents available. Through the searching, 209 articles were downloaded and 42 recently published articles were selected after abstraction with application of inclusion and exclusion criteria for this paper. Now days, low and middle-income countries are achieving remarkable scores in their health care supply chain because of outsourcing. Outsourcing is being used as a means to further strengthen the health care supply chain system in .. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2329-6488.22.10.375