Spatial distribution of healthcare access and utilization: do they affect health outcomes in Turkey?

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2019

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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd

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This paper examines the link between healthcare access/utilization and health outcomes in Turkey within a spatial framework. Our initial set of findings highlight an overall duality in health indicators which is getting stronger once a spatial dimension is included. Specifically we find wider spatial dichotomy for health outcomes relative to access and utilization measures. Finally once we consider unobserved heterogeneity, spatial spillovers and spatial variability; our results pinpoint a non-robust link between healthcare access/utilization measures and health outcomes which works better among the already developed regions of Turkey. Overall, our combined results indicate an ongoing polarization of health-based human capital development which coincides with local variations of the relationship between healthcare access/utilization and outcomes in Turkey.

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BILGEL, FIRAT/0000-0002-2585-5975

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Healthcare, inequalities, spatial dependence, Turkey

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3

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11

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124

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163