“…In the literature, there are also various studies investigating the relationship between health expenditure and economic growth for Turkey. The vast majority of these studies put forward that health expenditures stimulate economic growth (Arısoy, Ünlükaplan & Ergen, 2010;Tıraşoğlu & Yıldırım, 2012;Akar, 2014;Aydemir & Baylan, 2015;Başar, Künü & Bozma, 2016;Atılgan, Kılıç & Ertuğrul, 2017;Altun, İşleyen & Görür, 2018;Çalışkan, Karabacak & Meçik, 2018;Erçelik, 2018;Kızıl & Ceylan, 2018). However, Kar & Taban (2003), Yumuşak & Yıldırım (2009) and Öztürk & Uçan (2017) argue that health expenditure negatively affects economic growth.…”