Evaluation of Current Studies on Economics and Financing Policies in Health Management

Abstract

One of the most important elements of health services management is to ensure the sustainability of services. In this context, the economic sustainability of health services and the development of policies for the financing of health services come to the fore. The aim of this research is to identify current research topics in economics and financing policies in health management. Within the scope of the research, open access international articles published in the last five years were searched by searching the keywords "health management" or "healthcare management" or "health care management" or "health administration" or "health care administration" or "healtcare administration" AND "economy" or "economics" or "finance" or "financing" AND "policy" or "politics" in the subject title on the Web Of Science database, and 58 articles that were found to be about economic and financing policies in the field of health management were subjected to content analysis. As a result of the research, it was determined that researches were conducted on "Policy development in health" (16) and "Financing in health" (14) and on the themes of "Economic effectiveness in health services" (11) and "Ensuring Financial Sustainability of Health Services" (8). In the analysed articles, while most of the evaluations are made on the basis of documents, studies on bureaucrats and health administrators come to the forefront in general. Health financing performance is important in terms of providing sustainable resources for health services. The prominence of financing studies for health services as a result of this research supports this situation. Likewise, emphasising the necessity of developing health policies to ensure inclusive service provision in health and to prevent inequality in health reveals the importance of this research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53486/cike2024.17; UDC: [005:614.2]:303.645.063; JEL Classification: I11, I18