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Hasan Hüseyin YILDIRIM, PhD

►Health and Politics

Perihan ŞENEL TEKİN, MSc

►Triangulation Point

Ramazan ERDEM, PhD

►Paradigm

Arslan Ümit GİRAY, MD, PhD

►Health Management

Erkin GÖÇMEN

►Health Law

Abdurrahman ÖZDEMİR

►Material Management

As President of the EU Health Research Centre (ABSAM) I am pleased to warmly welcome you to our web site. ABSAM is an international non-profit association registered in Turkey. Our objective is to "create societal value added in the areas of EU health, health policies, and other related areas based on scientific knowledge". We do that through;

1. conducting research,

2. undertaking projects,

3. providing consultancy,

4. realizing education,

5. organizing meetings, and

6. sharing knowledge.
 

Thank you for visiting.

Hasan Hüseyin Yıldırım, PhD

ABSAM President

► The EU Health Research Centre (ABSAM) was founded on 15 April 2005 based in Ankara, Turkey as an international non-profit association.

15 April 2005

►Healthcare Reforms in Turkey

XX XX 2007, new!... forthcoming

Health reforms, shaped by various factors as demographic changes, technological developments and financial pressures, have been either debated or implemented almost in every nation.  Generally speaking, basic objective of the health reforms is to improve the health system which has been disfunctioning for such reasons as inefficient resource allocation, low quality services, inequity in accessing the health services, dissatisfaction, unfulfilled expectations and small gains as compared to the resources used.  

Turkish health reforms too have not stayed away from that global trend of health reform. In Turkey, the health reforms have been on the agenda for more than 40 years and have been repeated every now and then. The health reform attempts in early 1960s, which could be considered as the first wave health reforms, gave emphasis to an integrated structure in the health system, whereas the debates on restructuring the Turkish health system started in early 1990s mainly with the influence of the globalization process and the worldwide health reforms formed by the liberal policies (second wave health reforms). The existing government has been continuing the reforms since 2003 under the name ‘Health Transformation Program’ (HTP) (third wave health reforms).

► The EU Health Research Centre (ABSAM) was founded on 15 April 2005 based in Ankara, Turkey as an association.

15 April 2005