Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration

Turkey has realized a very successful health reform between 2003 and 2013. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has developed strategic objectives and major transformation processes under the reform primarily focused on people and gave priority to improve...

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Main Authors: Sumer, Safir, Shear, Joanne, Yener, Ahmet Levent
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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spelling okr-10986-330982021-05-25T09:31:18Z Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration Sumer, Safir Shear, Joanne Yener, Ahmet Levent HEALTH CARE SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH DELIVERY PRIMARY CARE FACILITIES HEALTH REGULATION HEALTH FINANCE INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE Turkey has realized a very successful health reform between 2003 and 2013. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has developed strategic objectives and major transformation processes under the reform primarily focused on people and gave priority to improve and reshape the primary care structure through the introduction of the Family Medicine (FM) model. Universal health coverage has been established, and the MoH initiated various programs to improve the service provision at all stages. While the overall transformation process includes many aspects of a broader integration of care, an explicit ‘integrated care’ model has never been discussed in Turkey. This report therefore aims to provide a picture of the Turkish health system from an integrated care perspective while prioritizing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and to inform policy makers andpractitioners on the needs and opportunities to design a broader care integration model as well as to present specific recommendations on how to improve integration among the primary health care (PHC) actors. The scope of this report covers analysis and means for integration within the primary care levels as this seems a good entry point for integrated care within the Turkish context. Discussions on the vertical integration between preventive, primary, and secondary care as well as the financial models for integration are left to future activities/efforts. 2019-12-24T16:19:53Z 2019-12-24T16:19:53Z 2019-07-17 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895321576170471609/Building-an-Improved-Primary-Health-Care-System-in-Turkey-through-Care-Integration http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33098 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Health Study Europe and Central Asia Turkey
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topic HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM
HEALTH DELIVERY
PRIMARY CARE FACILITIES
HEALTH REGULATION
HEALTH FINANCE
INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE
spellingShingle HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM
HEALTH DELIVERY
PRIMARY CARE FACILITIES
HEALTH REGULATION
HEALTH FINANCE
INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE
Sumer, Safir
Shear, Joanne
Yener, Ahmet Levent
Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Turkey
description Turkey has realized a very successful health reform between 2003 and 2013. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has developed strategic objectives and major transformation processes under the reform primarily focused on people and gave priority to improve and reshape the primary care structure through the introduction of the Family Medicine (FM) model. Universal health coverage has been established, and the MoH initiated various programs to improve the service provision at all stages. While the overall transformation process includes many aspects of a broader integration of care, an explicit ‘integrated care’ model has never been discussed in Turkey. This report therefore aims to provide a picture of the Turkish health system from an integrated care perspective while prioritizing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and to inform policy makers andpractitioners on the needs and opportunities to design a broader care integration model as well as to present specific recommendations on how to improve integration among the primary health care (PHC) actors. The scope of this report covers analysis and means for integration within the primary care levels as this seems a good entry point for integrated care within the Turkish context. Discussions on the vertical integration between preventive, primary, and secondary care as well as the financial models for integration are left to future activities/efforts.
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author Sumer, Safir
Shear, Joanne
Yener, Ahmet Levent
author_facet Sumer, Safir
Shear, Joanne
Yener, Ahmet Levent
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title Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
title_short Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
title_full Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
title_fullStr Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
title_full_unstemmed Building an Improved Primary Health Care System in Turkey through Care Integration
title_sort building an improved primary health care system in turkey through care integration
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895321576170471609/Building-an-Improved-Primary-Health-Care-System-in-Turkey-through-Care-Integration
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