Public-private partnership in the health sector: The example of Tekirdag province

In accordance with the understanding of being a social state that aims to improve the welfare level of the society, the provision of public services by the state, on the one hand, becomes easier with technological developments, while on the other hand, the diversification of these public services creates difficulties. The way public services are handled in developing countries is also changing. Apart from classical public services, states provide public services for reasons such as adapting to the development and change conditions of the age, ensuring the effective and efficient use of limited resources, benefiting from the dynamism and up-to-date and innovative perspective of the private sector, sharing the risk and starting the construction of facilities with financial support from the private sector. They started to turn to private partnership models. Public private partnerships are implemented as a model based on risk sharing and cooperation between the public and private sectors to meet the increasing infrastructure and service needs. This model is a financial investment model that has become widely used to meet the increasing investment needs of countries in line with their economic goals. In this study, how the service will work in health facilities serving with the public-private partnership model in the health sector and their control mechanisms are explained. The example of Tekirdağ city hospital was examined and its effects at the provincial level were mentioned.