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This paper develops an applied stochastic model of public health care and shows that the public health care sector in Turkey is plagued by a low quality–high cost–low satisfaction trap which has been persistent over time. The values in question are shown to be stochastically stable. We formulate an efficiency-quality-welfare improving stochastic policy rule, which helps the sector to reach a selected target and which stabilizes quality, cost and welfare around that target.
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An earlier draft of the paper was presented at the European Applied Business Research Conference, Venice/Padova, Italy, June 2007. The draft in question, (Kara 2007b), was narrower in scope and did not include the analysis of the issues associated with costs and welfare.
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Kara, A. A low quality–high cost–low satisfaction trap in public health care: a model and an efficiency-quality-welfare improving stochastic resolution. Qual Quant 47, 2081–2093 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-011-9643-6
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