Changing origins of inequalities in access to health care services in Turkey: From occupational status to income

dc.authoridYilmaz, Volkan/0000-0002-9283-3020
dc.authorwosidYilmaz, Volkan/K-6852-2019
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Volkan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:56:55Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:56:55Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractHealth care reforms have always been critical political arenas within which the parameters of citizens' access to health care services and thus the new terms of social bargain that backs social policies are negotiated. Despite the relative success of Turkey in establishing public health insurance schemes and developing a public capacity for health care service delivery since the late 1940s, Turkey's health care system has largely failed to institute equality of access to health care services. With the promise of abolishing the inequalities, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) launched Turkey's Health Transformation Program in 2003. Since then, Turkey's health care system has been undergoing a significant transformation. On the one hand, with the unification of all public health insurance schemes under a compulsory universal health insurance scheme and the equalization of benefit packages for all publicly insured, the program has succeeded in abolishing the occupational status-based inequalities in access to health care services. On the other, this article suggests that the program has changed the main origin of inequalities in service access from occupational status to income. As the country suffers from an uneven distribution of income, it is argued that these income-based inequalities in access pose a significant threat to the realization of the social citizenship ideal in Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0896634600001886
dc.identifier.endpage77en_US
dc.identifier.issn0896-6346
dc.identifier.issn1305-3299
dc.identifier.issue48en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84879759498en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage55en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600001886
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8899
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000325382000002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge Univ Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofNew Perspectives on Turkeyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectHealth Care Policyen_US
dc.subjectHealth Care Reformen_US
dc.subjectİnequalityen_US
dc.subjectİncomeen_US
dc.subjectAccessen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectWelfareen_US
dc.subjectInsuranceen_US
dc.subjectRegimeen_US
dc.titleChanging origins of inequalities in access to health care services in Turkey: From occupational status to incomeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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