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This chapter offers insights into the political dynamics that made healthcare reform possible in the Turkish context and the impact these dynamics had on the design and implementation of the reform. The chapter analyses the changes in the power dynamics between the various actors and presents the new conflicts that emerged among those actors in healthcare politics as a result of the reform. The chapter presents the dynamics of change in Turkey’s healthcare system in particular and its welfare system in general.
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Yılmaz, V. (2017). Conclusion. In: The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53667-5_9
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