ABSTRACT

Health systems almost all around the world face many challenges such as the aging population, increasing chronic and infectious diseases, needs, technological innovations and health expenditures. Countries; including Turkey, are looking for a variety of remedies to overcome these challenges and the value-based healthcare concept has come to the forefront in tackling the challenges. The main objective of this article is to reveal the value-based healthcare in general and the Turkish case. In the scope of this article, an open-ended questionnaire consisting of the six subtitles related to value-based health care in the Turkish health system was prepared and the questionnaire was sent to 12 representatives including public institutions, healthcare providers, health economists, academics, experts and other associations from the field of health. Their responses were the main qualitative material of this research and this research was conducted between June 2020 and August 2020. It is believed that the concept of value-based healthcare has a huge potential to develop person-centered health systems that can produce efficient, quality, effective, and sustainable healthcare and thereby improve health outcomes.