Turkish Health Policies
Past, Present, and Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21834932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ahmet Bunyan Oguz (0000-0001-7561-2405, Işık University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 456-472 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work in Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-190X • E-ISSN: 1937-1918 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19371918.2020.1806167 |
| PMID | 32811368 |
| OpenAlex | W3076328658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this article, health policies in Turkey from the 1900s to the present are reviewed in light of the available data on the number of health institutions, life expectancy, infant mortality, and state budget allocation. While a significant quantitative development is observed in the provision of health services, the state by far maintained a leading role in the provision of health services until the 1980s, when an initially weak but steady deviation began, significantly increasing its pace from 2002 and creating a new path where the private sector raised its share with the extensive implementation of neoliberal economic policies. The emergence of public-private partnership projects as a financing tool in the health sector, with various models from the 1990s around the world, found its place in the Turkish health system in the form of city hospitals from 2013, creating a new deviation in the provision of health services by the state
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · General partnership · Geography · Health care · Health services · Life expectancy · Pace · Population · Private sector · Public health · Turkish · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Nursing · State Capitalism and Financial Governance · Finance · Health Policy
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A history of public health.
A civilizing mission’? Austrian medicine and the reform of medical structures in the Ottoman Empire, 1838–1850
The Turkish welfare regime in transformation
Neo-liberalism
PPPs in Health
Neoliberalizing Space
Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a Big Way
Turkish Population in the Great Depression
Living with/in and without neo-liberalism
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |