Comparison between UAE and Turkey Health Care System

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Region and population The UAE is a small country that situated the Middle East. It consists of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Sharjah, Ras alkhaimah, Fujairah, and Umm alquaiwan and Sharjah. UAE population has rapidly increased from 468,287 on 1975 to 8,263,070 due to 2010.UAE population divided on to five different groups: 16.6% of the total population are emirate, 23% are Arabs, 42% are from south of Asia and 6% are expatriates. Turkey situated on Asia continent. It has an area of 783,562 Km2. Population in Turkey steadily increased. According to the statistics in 2003 the total population was 66.87 million compared to 75.81 million in 2013. General health information The health care systems is highly standard in both countries and progressing to offer the best health services for the population. In Turkey,the Health care system went through several periods. However, the financing of health care is complex. As it provides five different social health insurances and each has it is beneficial. This led to unfairness among population as some program cover wider and higher quality of health care services. Therefore, in 2006 the program sat to bring all five schemes under a single insurance according to the law of "social Insurance and general health insurance" (Turkey health care system (2011)). In 2009,public hospitals were 833 while, 556 of them are private hospitals. In turkey the total spending on health care will rise up to 7.16 billion representing 9.6 of global GDP by 2014. (Health system review. Health Systems in Transition) (The outline of Turkish health care environment, n.d) Before oil discovery condition the health care system was poor but a few years after oil boom health care system increased. U... ... middle of paper ... ...b Emiratis, 2006) Turkey has many prevention programs, which include prevention and control program, national programs of communicable diseases, and cardiovascular diseases as well as cancer. Health care system preparing for different program called "obesity prevention and control program". (Turkey health report, 2004) References: Aydın S, Şahin B, Tatar M, Mollahaliloğlu S, Tatar M, Aydın S, Maresso A, Turkey: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2011, 13(6):1–186. Health system profile United Arab Emiratis (2006). Regional health systems observatory; world health organization The outline of Turkish health care environment (n.d). Health in DEiK- Retrieved from http://www.healthinturkey.org About thiqua(n.d). Abu Dhabi health services- Retrieved from www.seha.ae Turkey health report (2004). The ministry of health of turkey; SB-HM-2004/01

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