Overview
- Describes the historical legacy of Turkey’s health care system against the background of Turkish politics
- Examines the Health Transformation Programme within the context of healthcare reforms in selected developing countries in Latin America, Southern Europe and East Asia
- Presents healthcare reform as a political process within which social values and the interests of a diverse set of global and domestic actors interact
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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“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)
“Healthcare reform is a significant issue across the world and how policies are developed and implemented in different countries is of the utmost importance. This excellent analysis of Turkish healthcare politics is greatly welcomed.” (Nick Ellison, University of York, UK)“This timely book by Volkan Yılmaz on health sector reform in Turkey offers important insights into the political aspects of the reform processes and the growth of the private provision of healthcare. Yılmaz's analysis sheds new light on the decrease of the power of medical associations and considers what role should now be assigned to “professional knowledge” at a time where it is frequently replaced by the drive for economic profit. The Turkish case has important parallels with wider health sector reform processes in both the Global North and South, and the book offers an original contribution to these debates.” (Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)<
“We have much to learn from the politics of healthcare in middle-income countries and emerging economies. Yılmaz’s fascinating book on healthcare reform and its marketization in Turkey stands out for its empirically grounded analysis of the changing political foundations of Turkey’s welfare system and for its account of the contestations and negotiations between different political actors over the reform.” (Susan F Murray, King’s College London, UK)
“This empirically rich investigation of the often-neglected political aspects of healthcare reform in Turkey provides valuable theoretical insights into the politics of social policy. It is also an excellent guide to the political dynamics of institutional change in contemporary Turkish society.” (Ayşe Buğra, Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
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Book Title: The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey
Authors: Volkan Yilmaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53667-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53666-8Published: 05 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85211-9Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53667-5Published: 21 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Development and Health, Health Care Management, Governance and Government