Evaluating the performance of primary health care services in Turkey and the use of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT): lessons from Brazil in a national random household survey

Abstract

Like Brazil, Turkey spends about $1,200 per
capita on health. In demographic terms, other
similarities can be observed: the population
over 65 years old is close to 9.0% in both
countries, away from the demographic trend
of aging in Europe, where the OECD average
for a set of 36 countries is 17.4%.
However, the share of health
expenditure in relation to GDP is different: in
the first 9.2% and in the second only 4.2%,
although, this percentage in the case of Turkey
considers that most of the spending comes
from public sources (about 80%), while in
Brazil only 43%

Keywords

• primary care
• household survey
• evaluation

References

1. 1 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.
2. 2 Lağarlıa T, Eserb E, Baydur H. Psychometric properties of the Turkish Adult Consumer version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT-TR). Turk J Public Health 2014; 12 (3) 162-177. https://doi.org/10.20518/thsd.74625
3. 3 D’Avila OP, Pinto LFS, Hauser L, Gonçalves MR, Harzheim E. The use of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT): an integrative review and proposed update. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 22(3): 855-865, 2017. [cited 2019 Nov 11] Available from http://www.scielo.br/pdf/csc/v22n3/en_1413-8123-csc-22-03-0855.pdf
4. 4 Brazil. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Launch of Fieldwork of Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS-2019) from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) – Telessaúde, RS - UFRGS. [cited 2019 Nov 11]. Available from: https://www.ufrgs.br/telessauders/noticias/launch-of-fieldwork-of-brazilian-national-health-survey-pns-2019-from-brazilian-institute-of-geography-and-statistics-ibge/