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Emrah Konuralp Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Iğdır University, 76000, Iğdır, Turkey

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Nurten Dayioğlu Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University, Zeytinburnu-Istanbul, Turkey

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Abstract

The neoliberal structural adjustment policies in Turkey moved on to a new phase with the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that came into effect in 2003. In this study, 5,002 people, who used the services of the public hospitals in Istanbul, participated in a face-to-face survey to find out the impact of the HTP on the public's understanding of the welfare state and also the impact on their opinions over the healthcare services offered by the state. The data were classified into two topics: First, the transformation of the welfare state and second, the adequacy of the public healthcare services. Interestingly, the participants took a much more explicit stance against the neoliberal transformation of the welfare state than against the adequacy of the public healthcare service provision. The primary purpose of this research was to expose this paradox.

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