Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
Due to an increse in education expenses in last decades, the number of
people per doctor has decreased. As can be seen in Table 2, in the last 14
years this decrease continued. While this number in 1988 was 1276, it
decreased to 745 in 2002. This improvement has been reached inspite of a
24% increase in population.
An increase in the health expenses in last years created an increase in heatlh
expenditure per person as well. Health expenditure per person has increase
by 38% in last ten years (tab. 3).
Even though there is an improvement in health expenditures in Turkey, it
still is too low when it comes to compare with the OECD countries. This
huge differences has been shown in Tabloe 4 below.
However, the same increasing trend cannot be seen in Ministry of Health’s
share from the general budget. In last ten years, the Ministry of Health’s
share from general budget fluctuates between 4.5% and 2.5%. The decrease
in health expenditure in last years is a result of economic crisis experienced
during last years (tab. 5).
Table 6 and 7 show the data for some contagious illnesses. According to
2001 data the AIDS incidents experienced is 1325. The number of men with
AIDS is more than the number of women with AIDS. According to 1999
data total number of cancer detected in Turkey is 25,942.
Medicine and medicine related imports show an incresing trend in terms of
years. In 1990, import of medicine and medicine related row materials is
about $470 million. This number reached to $1.5 million in 2001 (tab. 8).
The evaluation of mother-baby health issues in Turkey shows that the rate
of giving birth with the help of a specialist increases rapidly. The amount of
giving birth at home has decreased more than 50% in the period between
1999 and 2001 (tab. 9).
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