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

11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
expected coordination and services cannot be provided to the public. Some
problems experienced in Turkey regarding health services are following:
- Health sector cannot be organized adequately due to spread structure of
institutions. The main reasons for this disorganization can be stated as
follow: misuse of human resources, political views, erroneous definitions
of duties, and lack of inspections in health sector. Another reason for
disorganization is that lack of information due to problems in the flow of
information among institutions.
- The share of health in GDP is not enough. Lack of building, resoruces
and other tools used in health servises are them main reasons of hardship
in health. İn other words, most of the problems in health sector is due to
financial problems.
Turkey is one of candidate countries for full membership to the European
Union. As analyzed from this point of view, Turkey has not yet reached to
the level of EU countries (Isik, 2001, pp: 106-107). However, efforts in this
area is notable in last five years. In addition to that, health institutions
belong to NGO in last years has increased. Also, people who have no health
securities, if they are eligible, can get health services free of charge from the
Ministry of Health. According to 2001 data 1.3 million people receive free
health services in Turkey.
But after the parlamentary elections last year Turkey has now a “one party
government”. It seems that some of the notorious problems in the health
sector are going to be solved. Reorganization of the sector is already
underway. Health Reform activities can be summarized as : the initiation of
the application of General Health Insurence as soon as possible; to separate
the service supplier from the financing organization; to give autonomy to
hospitals to help them provide high quality and efficient services; to adopt
the Family Medicine model in primary health services; to help the Ministry
of Health acquire a new structure and to harmonize Turkish health
regulations with EU norms.
The information and statistics in Turkey is collected and stored by the
Ministry of Health and State Institute for Statistics. The web addresses of
these institutions are:
- T.R. Ministry of Health: www.saglik.gov.tr
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