International Conference on Eurasian Economies
17-18 September 2013 – St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 718
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Growth and Development
Presenter: Dr. Serdal Bahçe
Session : 2B Kalkınma
Health Care Reform and Household Welfare: Health Transformation Programme in Turkey
Sağlık Hizmetleri Reformu ve Hane Halkı Refahı: Türkiye’de Sağlıkta Dönüşüm Programı
- Dr. Serdal Bahçe (Ankara University, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Altuğ Murat Köktas (Ankara University, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Deniz Abukan (Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye)
Abstract
We assessed the health care reform and its effects on household’s welfare such as access to health care and household economic burden. We used descriptive analysis on 2002-2011 Ministry of Health and OECD Health Statistics. The main result is about using health care. Access to health care increased after health care reform in Turkey. Number of applications to health care service server and its units rose. On the other hand, financial burden of health care on household’s budget decreased number of applications. The main result percentage of not consulting a specialist even needed to consult a specialist but did not during the past 12 months is %4.9 in 2003 and %19.9 in 2010. To improve health care access, policy makers should improve public sector provision of health care, increase social security benefit packages and protect poor and vulnerable.
JEL codes: I11, I15, I18
Bahçe, Serdal, Köktas, Altuğ Murat, Abukan, Deniz (2013). "Health Care Reform and Household Welfare: Health Transformation Programme in Turkey" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2013, pp.299-307, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C04.00718
