Turkey has realized a very successfulhealth reform between 2003 and 2013. The Ministry of Health(MoH) has developed strategic objectives and majortransformation processes under the reform primarily focusedon people and gave priority to improve and reshape theprimary care structure through the introduction of theFamily Medicine (FM) model. Universal health coverage hasbeen established, and the MoH initiated various programs toimprove the service provision at all stages. While theoverall transformation process includes many aspects of abroader integration of care, an explicit ‘integrated care’model has never been discussed in Turkey. This reporttherefore aims to provide a picture of the Turkish healthsystem from an integrated care perspective whileprioritizing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and to informpolicy makers andpractitioners on the needs andopportunities to design a broader care integration model aswell as to present specific recommendations on how toimprove integration among the primary health care (PHC)actors. The scope of this report covers analysis and meansfor integration within the primary care levels as this seemsa good entry point for integrated care within the Turkishcontext. Discussions on the vertical integration betweenpreventive, primary, and secondary care as well as thefinancial models for integration are left to future activities/efforts.
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