TY - BOOK ID - 50612557 TI - Turkey. PY - 2008 SN - 9789264051089 9264051082 9786612102929 1282102923 9264051090 9789264051096 PB - Paris : OECD, DB - UniCat KW - Medical care KW - Public health KW - Health care reform KW - Soins médicaux KW - Santé publique KW - Services de santé KW - Réforme KW - Medical care, Cost of KW - Cost of medical care KW - Health care costs KW - Health care expenditures KW - Medical costs KW - Medical expenses KW - Medical service, Cost of KW - Medicine KW - Medical economics KW - Medical savings accounts KW - Health reform KW - Health system reform KW - Healthcare reform KW - Medical care reform KW - Reform of health care delivery KW - Reform of medical care delivery KW - Medical policy KW - Health insurance KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Costs KW - Turkey UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50612557 AB - 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. ER -