PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OECD COUNTRIES BASED ON HEALTH OUTCOMES AND EXPENDITURE INDICATORS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the performance of OECD countries based on health expenditure and outcomes indicators by using TOPSIS method which is one of the multi criteria decision making techniques. Another aim of the study is to determine the level of Turkey among OECD countries in terms of health outcomes and expenditures.

The research universe of the study is composed of OECD countries. The research sample was not selected and all 35 OECD countries were included in this study. Research data were obtained from OECD database. MS office excel program was used in the analysis of the research data. Two health expenditures and four health outcome indicators were used to measure the performance of OECD countries. TOPSIS method was used in the analysis of the research data.

With respect to the findings of the research data, the average performance score of OECD countries was found to as 0.6900. According to health expenditure and outcomes indicators, Solovenia (0.8250), Korea (0.8155) and Israel (0.8113) was found to have the highest performance scores, while the United States (0.3597), Mexico (0.4319) and Turkey (0.5481) was determined to have the lowest performance scores

Health expenditure is one of the most important factors affecting health outcomes. In addition to health expenditure, many factors influence health outcomes, such as tobacco and alcohol use, access to health services, quality of health services, education, employment, income level, community safety, air and drinking water quality.

Keywords

• Health,Outcome,Expenditure,Performance

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