ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1632883
This article is part of the Research TopicPublic Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Security Systems in Improving Residents' Health WelfareView all 90 articles
Determinants of Healthcare Expenditures: Evidence from Türkiye's Healthcare System
Provisionally accepted
- 1Erzurum Technical University, Yakutiye, Türkiye
- 2Firat Universitesi, Elz, Türkiye
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The lack of a mandatory referral system for service demand in Türkiye's health system and the belief that unnecessary health expenditures are increasing constitute the basis of this study. This study aims to analyze the determinant role of individuals in health expenditures in Türkiye in two dimensions: household indicators and indicators for the head of the household, taking into account health expenditure policies.Methods In this study, the factors affecting households' out-of-pocket health expenditures are tested with the help of binary probit regression analysis using the micro data set of the Turkish Statistical Institute 2022 Household Budget Survey.The findings revealed no significant relationship between out-of-pocket health expenditures and variables such as gender, education level, employment status, private insurance ownership, alcohol and tobacco use, ease of access to a health center, receipt of monetary aid, or household size.According to the results of the research, older individuals spend more on health expenditures. Expenditures increase in parallel with education expenditures and health expenditures decrease as income level increases.
Keywords: türkiye, Post-pandemic, Out-of-pocket health expenditure, probit, Health Economics
Received: 21 May 2025; Accepted: 05 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Kübranur ÇEBİ KARAASLAN, Erzurum Technical University, Yakutiye, Türkiye
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