Karahasan, Burhan CanBilgel, Firat2024-05-252024-05-25201931793-81201793-817110.1080/17938120.2019.15835092-s2.0-85082074467https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2019.1583509https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/1476BILGEL, FIRAT/0000-0002-2585-5975This 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.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHealthcareinequalitiesspatial dependenceTurkeyArticleQ3111124163WOS:000470207800006