Overview

This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies. Focussing on healthcare politics in an under-researched developing country context, it fills a significant lacuna in existing scholarship. This study answers these questions: What were the political dynamics that enabled the introduction of healthcare reform in Turkey? What political conflicts did the reform generate? How and to whose benefit have these conflicts been resolved? Drawing on qualitative interviews with a diverse set of actors, Yılmaz explores the actors’ subjective interpretations of the reform, the discourses and strategies they used to influence the reform, and the changing healthcare politics scene. He demonstrates that the reform has been a complex political process within which actors negotiated whether and to what extent healthcare remains a citizenship right or a commodity. This book will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, politics, health policy, public health and sociology.

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Author:   Volkan Yilmaz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   4.703kg
ISBN:  

9783319536668

ISBN 10:   3319536664
Pages:   267
Publication Date:   05 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The New Politics of Healthcare in Turkey.- Chapter 2: The Politics of Healthcare: A Critical Review of the Literature.- Chapter 3: Healthcare and Politics in Turkish History.- Chapter 4: The Health Transformation Programme in Turkey Within the Context of Healthcare Reforms in Other Emerging Market Economies.- Chapter 5: The Impact of the World Bank on Healthcare Reform in Turkey.- Chapter 6: The AK Party and the Politics of Healthcare in Turkey in the Last Decade.- Chapter 7: The Turkish Medical Association as an Actor in the Politics of Healthcare.- Chapter 8: Private Healthcare Provider Organisations as New Actors in the Politics of Healthcare.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.- 

Reviews

The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey is a well-structured useful contribution to understanding the roots of Turkey's healthcare policies. It takes its rightful place among theoretical approaches to global social policy and policy diffusion. Researchers, policy makers, scholars and students, whose fields of research embrace international social policy, health system, health policy, political and economic history would benefit from this analysis. (Ilknur Simsek, Insight Turkey, Vol. 22 (3), 2020)

“The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey takes its rightful place on the comparative health policy shelf as the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s recent health reforms. Yılmaz identifies the tensions and conflicting components within the health reform program, and explores how key actors—such as the AKP governments, the TTB, and private healthcare organizations—have tried to shape the reforms’ content and implementation.” (Tuba I. Ağartan, New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 60, May, 2019)

Author Information

Volkan Yılmaz is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Boğaziçi University, Turkey.

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