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Spatial distribution of healthcare access and utilization: do they affect health outcomes in Turkey?

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  • Burhan Can Karahasan
  • Fırat Bilgel

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This paper examines the link between healthcare access/utilization and health outcomes in Turkey within a spatial framework. Our initial set of findings highlight an overall duality in health indicators which is getting stronger once a spatial dimension is included. Specifically we find wider spatial dichotomy for health outcomes relative to access and utilization measures. Finally once we consider unobserved heterogeneity, spatial spillovers and spatial variability; our results pinpoint a non-robust link between healthcare access/utilization measures and health outcomes which works better among the already developed regions of Turkey. Overall, our combined results indicate an ongoing polarization of health-based human capital development which coincides with local variations of the relationship between healthcare access/utilization and outcomes in Turkey.

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  • Burhan Can Karahasan & Fırat Bilgel, 2019. "Spatial distribution of healthcare access and utilization: do they affect health outcomes in Turkey?," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(1), pages 124-163, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:124-163
    DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1583509
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    1. Burhan Can Karahasan & Fırat Bilgel, 2021. "The Topography and Sources of Multidimensional Poverty in Turkey," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 154(2), pages 413-445, April.
    2. Firat Bilgel, 2021. "Infant mortality in Turkey: Causes and effects in a regional context," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 100(2), pages 429-453, April.

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