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The New Politics of Healthcare in Turkey

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This chapter presents the main puzzle that the book addresses: What political dynamics enabled the introduction of the Health Transformation Programme, Turkey’s healthcare reform? What kind of political conflicts did the reform generate? How and to whose benefit have these conflicts been resolved? The chapter situates these questions within a comparative framework of healthcare reforms and positions Turkey in this framework. The methods used in the research are also explained.

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    Welfare state generally refers to a state ‘which intervenes within the processes of economic reproduction and distribution to reallocate life chances between individuals and/or classes.’ See. PIERSON, C. 1991. Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press.

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    ‘The Transformation of Turkey’s Health System’ on November 25, 2011 at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. I would like to thank the Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Istanbul for their support.

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    ‘Turkey’s Healthcare Reform and Its Critiques,’ 7th National Congress of Bioethics on October 13, 2012.

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    Crisis of Capitalism and Health, organised by International Association of Health Policies and the Turkish Medical Association, Ankara, October 2011; Transformation and Changes in Healthcare, Çukurova Scholars Association, February 2013; National Congress of Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, April 2013.

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Yılmaz, V. (2017). The New Politics of Healthcare in Turkey. In: The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53667-5_1

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