Sources of health expenditure and its share of GDP have always been contentious topics in Turkey. As will be outlined in detail in this chapter, because of the different approaches taken to calculate GDP in different time ...

The Ministry of Health’s General Directorate of Curative Services is responsible for licensing health care institutions and major medical technologies in Turkey. The Directorate also is in charge of establishing health ...

Turkey is located in the northern hemisphere and bridges Europe and Asia. The bordering countries are Greece and Bulgaria to the north-west, Georgia and Armenia to the north-east, the Islamic Republic of Iran in the east ...

Turkey is located in the northern hemisphere and bridges Europe and Asia. The bordering countries are Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq. The country has a ...

Turkey has achieved considerable health status improvements since the 1980s in major health status indicators. However, although infant mortality, child mortality and maternal mortality rates have decreased, and life ...

The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series consists of country-based reviews that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific ...

The Constitution gives the Ministry of Health the responsibility to protect and improve public health in Turkey. However, certain aspects of public health require intersectoral collaboration. As will be discussed below, ...

This chapter outlines the principles and practice of regulation and planning in the Turkish health care system. Table 4.1 outlines the main legislative arrangements upon which the health care system is based. As can be ...

Health care reform has been given the utmost importance on Turkey’s policy agenda since the late 1980s. In 1989, the SPO’s Master Plan Study (SPO, 1990), which was developed through a World Bank loan, introduced new concepts ...