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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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | 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 |
| Summary: | 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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