OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Turkey 2008
This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows that health status
has improved rapidly in Turkey in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health
spending. It describes the introduction of an ambitious Health Transformation Programme
in 2003 which brought universal health insurance to Turkey in 2008 and has begun the
process of public hospital reforms and the rolling out of family-practitioner services
throughout the country. Challenges remain, however, including completing the Health
Transformation Programme and ensuring that the new health system provides value for
money and stays affordable. This report analyses these challenges and sets out policy
suggestions aimed at addressing them.
Published on February 18, 2009
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