• Mental health care policy reform in Turkey: User group perspectives 

  Bilir, Merve Kardelen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  The mental health policy of Turkey has been undergoing a transformation process since 2006. The main aim of this change is to prioritize the establishment of community-based mental health care services and to organize ...
• Tax policies and social expenditures: Comparing impacts on inequality and poverty in Turkey and Mexico 

  Toprak, Muhammet Halil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  This thesis examines and compares the impacts of overall Turkish and Mexican fiscal system on poverty and income inequality by using the "conventional" incidence analysis method, based on micro data derived from household ...
• A cash-for-care scheme targeting children with disabilities in Turkey: Parent / caregiver perspectives 

  Avşaroğlu, Nazlı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  A cash-for-care scheme targeting mainly families with at least one disabled member has become the central policy response to the care needs of persons with disabilities in Turkey’s welfare regime. This thesis explores how ...
• Educational well-being of Syrian refugee children in public schools :|a qualitative study in Istanbul 

  Serim, Simla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  Starting from 2011, Turkey has been putting forth crucial efforts towards the education of Syrian refugee children. With the 2014 regulations, the Turkish government has made the decision to include Syrian students in ...
• Attitudes of young Turkish workers towards private pension plans 

  Gülmez, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  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. ...
• Turkey‘s tobacco control policies in comparative perspective: An analysis of anti-tobacco NGO stances 

  Zülfikar, Sercan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  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. ...
• Exploring social justice implications of mitigation policies :|positions of climate action advocates in Turkey 

  Yeniev, Gökçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  Studies show that in the absence of corrective complementary social policies, environmental mitigation policies are very likely to fail to provide overall positive societal results. Although the challenges should be ...
• Political discourse and health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey :|a critical analysis 

  Şen, Tuğba Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, governments had to devise policies to respond to a novel situation with imperfect and uncertain information. Developing government discourses to make meaning out of these unprecedented ...
• The contesting roles of the Hak-İş Trade Union confederation: Class and political identities 

  Arıcan, Yunus Furkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

  This thesis aims at scrutinizing the tension between class and political identities of the Trade Union Confederation Hak-İş from a historical institutionalist perspective. This has been done by putting the transformation ...
• An examination of diabetes policy in Turkey :|a qualitative documentary analysis 

  Ekici, Ekin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that Diabetes Mellitus is the 9th leading cause of death globally, accounting for about 2 million annual deaths as of 2019. Turkey is one of the countries with the highest ...
• Working beyond pension age in Turkey :|a qualitative analysis from a life course perspective 

  Kösem, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  Working in later life is increasingly becoming the norm in contemporary societies. Current developments in labor market and pension policies have extended working lives. This thesis focuses on the emerging pattern of working ...
• A three-layered analysis of Turkey's social and economic support program :|intentions, implementations, and gender outcomes 

  Keleş Yüksel, Şehide Zehra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  Female poverty, that can be rendered temporarily invisible by the traditional conjugal union, becomes a non-negligible problem when social aid mechanisms gain essential importance over single-parent households that are in ...
• Trade union responses to precarization :|the case of mandatory alternative dispute resolution in Turkey 

  Yüzüak, Batuğhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  The world of work has gradually fallen under the influence of the precarization trend, especially since the 1980s. One of the domains that this trend that can be observed is the changes in the judicial system and labor ...
• Locating Turkey's active labour market policies within activation typologies :|enabling or workfarist? 

  Canbazer, Cemre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  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 ...
• Social housing policy and the welfare regime in Turkey: A comparative perspective 

  Gürbüztürk, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

  This thesis examines how the housing policy and the housing sector in Turkey have been shaped by the country’s welfare regime through its transformation in the Republican period. The investigation of the Turkish case is ...
• Breast cancer patient pathways to treatment in Turkey’s internal healthcare market :|a qualitative study 

  Kesici, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  The importance of managing noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer, has been viewed as a vital component of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) due to their worldwide high prevalence, significant disease burden, and sometimes ...
• Young activist perspectives towards Turkish sexual and reproductive health policy and services :|problems, barriers, ideals 

  Çilingir, Dağlar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  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 ...
• An analysis of Turkish oral healthcare system :|patients' perceptions and treatment pathways 

  Aydın, Sibel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  Universal Health Coverage (UHC), as a globally set policy target in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, offers a unique opportunity for countries to make their healthcare systems more inclusive. However, ...
• Selling voluntary health insurance in a publicly-funded system :|a study with insurance agents in Turkey 

  Hışıl, Oğuzhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  Increasing voluntary private health insurance (PHI) uptake is a global trend. Turkey is not an exception to this trend despite it offers compulsory social health insurance for all. Two types of voluntary PHI are available ...
• The effect of diagnosis-related groups on clinical autonomy in Turkey :|the physician’s perspective 

  Aktaş, Püren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  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, ...

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