research but based on the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. The results attained through …The interdependencies of health, education and poverty that are common knowledge to individuals are also present at the …

. Being widowed increases the probability of smoking and reduces the probability of smoking cessation. …Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for … policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals …

Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …

The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the … mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be … health services. This study analitically evaluates the new health system structured by the transformation of health during …

Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions … require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information …, public sector as well as private one provides health care services. The study first acknowledges about Turkish public health …

The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public … health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public … establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been expanded rapidly in the recent years. It is very encouraging that the …

The introduction of the National Rural Health Mission has increased the demand for micro-level data on population and … health for use in monitoring, planning and programme implementation. This calls for the introduction of a Health Management … manner and monitor its quality, HMIS data cannot be used for health sector planning. The study analyzed HMIS portal data in …

proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is symptomatic of dysfunctional policy strategies and health systems in …

Prevention of disease is one of the main challenges to public health and the Bulgarian society in recent years. More … and more are data that prove, that the main risk factors for public health are associated with harmful effects of the …. Experts, dealing with the problems of public health, should offer the public a new look to health of the population to …

In order to test the existence of Thirlwall’s law for Turkey during the period of 1980-2008, bounds test approach to … cointegration is applied. The empirical results suggest that Thirlwall’s law holds for Turkey. This study also suggests some policy …