The impact of health expenditure on national income and health expenditures in Turkey and Bilecik

Health; the physical and mental well-being of individuals and societies can be defined as the continuity and protection of this situation for them. For a healthy society, health services should be given importance in the national economy. Health is an important element in the development of people and countries. In order for people and societies to be healthy, the national economies need to be strong and sustainable. At this point, there is an effective relationship between national economy, health expenditures and human capital. While the contribution of healthy individuals and societies to production and economy is positive, we can say that the economies of countries that are ill and unable to make improvements in this situation develop negatively. At this point, internal growth models explaining the relationship between human capital and national economies will help us to have more detailed information about the subject. The aim of this study is to examine the health economics and health expenditures and to evaluate the relationship between health expenditures and economic growth. Health indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, number of hospitals, number of physicians and number of hospital beds per 100.000 people were used in this evaluation. Study has been prepared based on data for provinces in Turkey. Then, private expenditures and health expenditures analysis of Bilecik province was evaluated. The relationship between health expenditures and economic growth is explained. Finally, the logarithm of the number of hospital beds, number of specialist doctors, number of dentists, number of nurses, number of health officers of 81 provinces and per capita gross domestic product of 81 provinces were used in the analysis. In this study, panel fixed effect model were used. The results are explained with the help of Eviews 9.0 package program.