Strategic purchasing research brief 3: Quantifying the need
Percept
March 2025
Jodi Wishnia, Shivani Ranchod and Anja Smith | December 2019
In this brief…
We consider the differences between demand and need, and why understanding need is critical to delivering effective healthcare. We discuss the data requirements to be able to match supply to population need and ways in which this can be quantified. This is positioned within the South African context, explaining how resource allocation is currently done in the public sector and how this would need to shift under NHI.
