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Türkiye'de Sağlık Hizmetleri ve Finansmanı
[Health Services and their Financing in Turkey]

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  • Celikay, Ferdi
  • Gumus, Erdal

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Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides health care services. The study first acknowledges about Turkish public health care services and their financing. Then, it compares Turkish health financing system with that of selected countries.

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  • Celikay, Ferdi & Gumus, Erdal, 2009. "Türkiye'de Sağlık Hizmetleri ve Finansmanı [Health Services and their Financing in Turkey]," MPRA Paper 42362, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Health Economics; Health Services; Health Expenditures; Health Systems; Health Policy; Health Financing;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists

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