Title: Monitoring is the Best Medicine: Requiring data-driven outcomes will help Turkey’s hospitals thrive

Language: English

Type: Document

Nature: Report

Published: January 1, 2016


Region: Europe and Central Asia

Country: Turkey

Keywords: PPP Data, Knowledge Lab

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Document Summary:

This article is extracted from Handshake Issue #17: Data.


Document Details:

The rising demand and increased costs for health service delivery are straining health delivery systems worldwide. In most countries, the majority of the health delivery system is government controlled, with public hospitals accounting for the largest percentage of overall health care spending. These public hospitals are as expensive as they are central to the national health care policy, so it’s in government’s best interest to assure they are functioning efficiently and effectively. Yet they are perhaps the most complex and difficult environments in which to enact reform. 


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