page_title: Health in Turkey
section_title: Turkish Health System
hierarchical_section_title: Health in Turkey / Turkish Health System
caption_attribution_description: English: Acıbadem Hospital in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
context_page_description: As of 31 December 2016, Turkish population is 79,814,871 of which 23.7% are between 0-14, 68% are between 15-64 and 8.3% are older than 65 years old. Life expectancy at birth for men is 75.3 and for women is 80.7 years. Maternal mortality ratio has decreased from 23 to 16 per 100,000 live births between the years 2010 to 2015. According to the data from 2015, Under-five mortality and infant mortality rates per 1000 live births are 13.5 and 11.6.
context_section_description: "Health services in Turkey are controlled by the Ministry of Health through a centralized state system. In 2003, the government introduced a comprehensive health reform program aimed at increasing the budget rate allocated to healthcare services and ensuring that a large part of the population is healthy. The Turkish Statistical Institute announced that it had spent 76.3 billion TL in health services in 2012; 79.6% of the service fees were covered by the Social Security Institution while the remaining 15.4% were paid directly by the patients." According to 2013 figures, there are 30,116 health institutions in Turkey and an average of 573 patients per doctor are falling. In addition, the number of beds per 1000 people is 2.64. Life expectancy in Turkey is 71.1 years for males and 75.2 years for females, and the life expectancy of the total population is 73.2 years. The three most common causes of mortality in the country are circulatory system diseases (39.8%), cancer (21.3%), respiratory diseases (9.8%).
  Healthcare in Turkey is majorly provided by Ministry of Health and some private health institutions. In 2003 with the Health Transformation Programme, the social security system is converged and now called 'The General Health Insurance Scheme'.
caption: Acıbadem Hospital in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
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