Health
This section focuses on policy proposals aimed at addressing structural problems in access to healthcare, quality, and sustainability in Türkiye. It emphasises preventive care, healthcare workers, service quality, and the long-term resilience of the system.
Overview
A health system should be approached holistically—not only through treatment services, but also through preventive medicine, equal access, and strengthening the healthcare workforce. Regional inequalities, rising costs, and the challenges faced by healthcare professionals make the system’s sustainability harder to maintain.
The proposals in this section aim to guarantee accessible, high-quality healthcare for everyone, improve the working conditions of healthcare workers, and strengthen the public health system over the long term.
Proposals
Proposal 34
Commission an action plan to accelerate the training of sufficient physicians, dentists, and nurses to OECD averages and higher by expanding training capacity, incentivizing students to choose medical professions, and recruiting foreign-trained medical professionals
Proposal 35
Commission an action plan to expedite existing steps to enhance the quality of primary care by expanding the scope of practice and decreasing the patient list size, introducing a comprehensive set of clinical guidelines, strengthening the referral system, and introducing mandatory continued education for primary care providers
Proposal 36
Prepare a plan to strengthen the information and institutional structure to support health care quality reforms by enhancing quality governance (standards, monitoring, and transparency) and the collection and public reporting of a broad set of quality indicators, and refocusing the central government to its regulatory, oversight, and quality governance functions
Proposal 37
Prepare a roadmap to develop the existing prescription information system into a more comprehensive national electronic health record system to share meaningful health information on individual patients among all health care providers to increase health care quality while safeguarding the privacy of patients
Proposal 38
Develop a national action plan to decrease nicotine abuse (smoking) among males with 15 percentage point by 2020 by broadening the prohibition on smoking-related activities, aggressively enforcing this prohibition, and educating both the public at large and physicians
Proposal 39
Prepare a national action plan to reduce usage of antibiotics by 50% through introducing a zero-tolerance enforcement policy, and educating both the public at large and physicians
Proposal 40
Develop a plan to strengthen mental health care by increasing the number of psychiatrists, psychologists, and specialized nurses, bolstering the role of family physicians, scaling-up evidence-based treatments, improving data collection, and prioritizing care for children and adolescents