Tatar Mehtap, Ozgen Hacer, Sahin Bayram, Belli Paolo, Berman Peter
Department of Health Care Management, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Jul-Aug;26(4):1029-39. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.1029.
The practice of making informal payments in the health sector is common in a number of countries. It has become an important policy issue around the world. These payments can jeopardize governments' attempts to improve equity and access to care and policies targeted to the poor. It is widely believed that a considerable amount of out-of-pocket payment in the health sector in Turkey is informal. To examine this issue, we used a questionnaire adopted from a wider international study. We concluded that informal payments in Turkey are significant and have important implications for health care reform.
在许多国家，医疗领域进行非正规付费的现象很普遍。这已成为一个全球性的重要政策问题。这些付费会危及政府为改善公平性以及扩大医疗服务可及性所做的努力，还有针对贫困人口的政策。人们普遍认为，土耳其医疗领域中相当一部分自付费用是非正规的。为研究这一问题，我们采用了一项更广泛的国际研究中的调查问卷。我们得出结论，土耳其的非正规付费情况严重，对医疗改革具有重要影响。
