Toward Universal Coverage : Turkey’s Green Card Program for the Poor

This case study unravels Turkey's path to universal coverage. It outlines both the transformation of the health system and the performance of the 'Yesil Kart', the Green Card, program, a noncontributory health insurance scheme for the poor. Initially launched in 1992, the Green Card p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Menon, Rekha, Mollahaliloglu, Salih, Postolovska, Iryna
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington DC 2013
Subjects:	access to health care access to services Ambulance Ambulance services beds blood products Budget Law capacity building capitation capitation basis certification chronic condition chronic diseases citizens clinical staff community health contracts with providers Cost sharing deaths decision making delivery mechanisms delivery system dental care dental prosthesis developing countries diabetes diagnostic tests dialysis doctors economic growth elderly emergency care emergency cases enrollees family health financial protection financial risk financial risks Force of Law gross domestic product health care health care financing health care provision health care services health care utilization health centers Health Coverage Health Expenditure Health Expenditures health facilities health financing health funding health indicators Health information health information system Health Insurance health insurance coverage Health Insurance Program health insurance scheme health insurance schemes health insurance system health outcomes Health Policy health promotion health promotion activities health records health reform health sector Health Sector Reform health service health service delivery health services Health System health system performance health systems healthcare healthcare services home visits hospital hospital autonomy Hospital services hospital system Hospitalization hospitals household income Human Development human resources ill health illnesses incentive structures income income countries infant infant mortality infant mortality rate infant mortality rates information systems inpatient treatment Insurance integration Life expectancy live births maternal health maternal health care maternal mortality maternal mortality ratio medical devices medical examinations medical goods medicines midwives Ministry of Health mortality National Health National Health Policy national level newborns number of people nurses outpatient services patient patients pharmaceutical companies Pharmaceutical expenditure pharmaceutical spending pharmacies pharmacy physician pocket payments prenatal care prescription drugs preventive care preventive health care primary care private hospitals private sector Private Sectors provision of care Public Health Public Health Expenditure Public Health Expenditures Public Health Spending public hospitals public spending purchasing power purchasing power parity referrals reform effort rural populations safety net Social Affairs Social Insurance Social Policies Social Security social security schemes treatments universal access use of resources vaccinations vaccines visits Workers
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13309