Access to rehabilitation services for people with disabilities is considered as a human rights issue in the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD). Along with the ratification of CRPD and implementation ...

Having established public pension schemes since the 1940s, Turkey introduced the voluntary private pillar in the early 2000s and launched the auto-enrolment in the private pension plan for all employees under 45 in 2016. ...

Labour market activation has emerged as a significant research area in the social policy literature due to the relevant policy developments of the last decades throughout the world. In Turkey, labour market activation ...

The city hospital program has been the latest example of the public-private partnership (PPP) paradigm in the Turkish healthcare system, which has transformed the role the public sector plays in public service provision. ...

Eight years ago, first flow of refugees started to cross the Turkish-Syrian border, fleeing a bloody civil war that started to tear their lives apart while looking for a fresh new start in a new country. Soon after, these ...

Since the 2003 Health Transformation Programme, Turkey’s health care system has been subjected to significant changes in financing, provision, and regulation. The diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) is among these regulations, ...

This thesis examines domestic political factors that made the 2006 corporate tax reform possible by exploring thematic patterns within the political debate around the reform. The 2006 reform decreased the corporate tax ...

This thesis explores Turkey‘s tobacco control policies from a historical and comparative perspective and situates the country‘s tobacco control policy framework within the comparative tobacco control regime framework. ...

With the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the rights based approach has become the main policy framework for sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The action plan of this conference had a ...