Bazı Sigorta Şirketi Yöneticilerinin Türkiye de Özel Sağlık Sigortacılığı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirmesi

Özsari, Haluk; Güdük, Özden

doi:10.31067/0.2020.303

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“…The 2% share of private health insurance in total health expenditures in Turkey is limited compared to developed countries. Those who can afford private health insurance, however, correspond to 10% of the population, which suggests a significant potential 105 …”

Section: Overview Of the Turkish Health Systemmentioning

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Determinants of Turkish households' out‐of‐pocket expenditures on three categories of health care services: A multivariate probit approach

Demir

Alkan

Bilgiç

et al. 2022

Health Planning & Management

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This study identifies the driving forces that contribute to the probabilities of incidence of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures by households in Turkey. Factors affecting the probability of OOP expenditures on medical products/devices/ supplies (MP), outpatient services (OTS), and inpatient services (ITS) are examined using the Household Budget Survey data gathered by the Turkish Statistical Institute in 2018. The study applies the multivariate probit model.The incidence of OOP spending varied with 48.9% of the households reporting OOP expenditure on MP, 22.4% on OTS, and 25.4% on ITS. The largest probability changes were associated with household disposable annual income, household type and size, age category, and having private health insurance. Gender and marital status also influenced expenditures in some categories. Lifestyle choices had small and mixed effects, with smoking and alcohol consumption lowering the probability of OOP spending. From a policy standpoint, households with the lowest incomes, large households, and those where the household head was 'others' (retiree, student, housewife, not actively working, etc.) or had a condition preventing employment seemed to report OOP expenditures less frequently and may have chosen not to receive healthcare services, leading to the need for more healthcare services later.

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Section: Overview Of the Turkish Health Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Those who can afford private health insurance, however, correspond to 10% of the population, which suggests a significant potential. 105…”

Section: Overview Of the Turkish Health Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Turkish households' out‐of‐pocket expenditures on three categories of health care services: A multivariate probit approach

Demir

Alkan

Bilgiç

et al. 2022

Health Planning & Management

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“…One reason for this is the existence of public health insurance. However, recently, individuals have started to turn to private health insurance for reasons such as seeking better quality service (Özsarı and Güdük, 2020).…”

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Covid-19 and Private Health Insurance: A Research on Individuals Perspectives on Private Insurance in Turkey

ŞAHİN¹,

UYAR²

2022

ijif

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At the end of 2019, the world met a new type of coronavirus and faced a serious pandemic caused by this virus. In many areas of daily life, especially in health, it has been attempted to combat the effects of the pandemic in question. About 500 million people worldwide have been infected with the virus, and about 7 million of them have died. The heavy disease process and the number of infected people negatively affected the health system of the countries. Individuals expected to receive the best service from hospitals during the epidemic period. Of course, the monetary dimension of this service has also reached serious figures. This situation brings us private health insurance as an alternative exit door. The public or additional private health insurance that the individual has makes him/her feel somewhat comfortable. Especially with private health insurance or supplementary health insurance, policyholders feel more secure in such difficult situations. After COVID-19 was seen as the first case in our country on March 10, 2020, diagnosis and treatment services were carried out by public hospitals. Later, private hospitals were declared as pandemic hospitals by the Ministry of Health and started to provide diagnosis and treatment services. Especially in cases where the treatment takes a long time and requires intensive care, the serious financial burden has created a problem for insurance companies and the insured. In this context, this study is aimed to investigate individuals’ perspectives on insurance and private health insurance in Covid-19 times. Data were collected and statistically analyzed through the questionnaire prepared within the scope of the study.

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Universal Health Coverage with Private Options: The Politics of Turkey’s 2008 Health Reform

Dorlach,

Yeğen

2023

St Comp Int Dev

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Over the past decades, countries across the Global South have been adopting expansionary health reforms and are increasingly doing so under the banner of promoting universal health coverage. But countries have taken notably different approaches regarding the inclusion of private actors in their expanding healthcare systems. In this article, we explore the political causes and consequences of partial privatization in the context of healthcare expansion. We conduct a case study of Turkey’s 2008 health reform, which coupled substantial coverage expansion with the introduction of private options in provision and financing—and has since been branded as a global “success story” of achieving universal health coverage. Specifically, we seek to explain why Turkey introduced private options with its expansionary health reform and what kind of policy feedback effects this has triggered. We find that private options were incorporated into the reform as the result of persistent business lobbying and pro-market changes in the leadership of the health ministry and not because of any international coercion, e.g., by the World Bank. The introduction of these private options has since led to the growth of private hospital and insurance markets and the political entrenchment of partial privatization.

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Bazı Sigorta Şirketi Yöneticilerinin Türkiye de Özel Sağlık Sigortacılığı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirmesi

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Determinants of Turkish households' out‐of‐pocket expenditures on three categories of health care services: A multivariate probit approach

Determinants of Turkish households' out‐of‐pocket expenditures on three categories of health care services: A multivariate probit approach

Covid-19 and Private Health Insurance: A Research on Individuals Perspectives on Private Insurance in Turkey

Universal Health Coverage with Private Options: The Politics of Turkey’s 2008 Health Reform

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