International Conference on Eurasian Economies
1-3 July 2014 – Skopje, MACEDONIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 959
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Growth and Development
Presenter: Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Barlas
Session : 4C Kalkınma I
Comparative Analysis of the Inter-Regional Infant Mortality Rate from the Perspective of Health Economics in Turkey
Türkiye’de Bölgesel Bebek Ölüm Hızlarının Sağlık Ekonomisi Perspektifinden Karşılaştırmalı Analizi
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Barlas (Gaziosmanpaşa University, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Fatih Şantaş (Hacettepe University, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Ahmet Kar (Hacettepe University, Türkiye)
Abstract
Being healthy is a condition which all individuals and all countries are willing to achieve. However, health is a difficult concept to define and describe. Countries that are striving to achieve better status of health allocate an increasing part of their national income to health sector and expect to get these expenditures' worth. Health economy is an important tool that can be utilized in determining the effect of expenditures on the status of health and improving the effectiveness of expenditures. Thus, health economics is being used both in micro and macro scales. One of the important criteria showing the health status and development of countries is infant mortality rate. Turkey is among the countries which closed the gap between itself and the developed countries in terms of infant mortality rate. In this study, velocity ratio between 2006 and 2012 in Turkey had been calculated in order to compare them with those of the developed countries. In order to compare Turkey's regional infant mortality rates, territorial velocity ratios had been calculated, Turkey Health Statistics Annual data belonging to the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 had been used to carry out various statistical analyses in order to determine the factors affecting infant mortality rate. Although Turkey had improved itself in terms of infant mortality rates, there are still things to be achieved at the scale of the country and the regions.
JEL codes: I15, D63
Barlas, Emin, Şantaş, Fatih , Kar, Ahmet (2014). "Comparative Analysis of the Inter-Regional Infant Mortality Rate from the Perspective of Health Economics in Turkey" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2014, pp.576-585, Skopje, MACEDONIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C05.00959
