Title: Women's health and access to health services in Turkey: evidence from general health status, disease-wellbeing, and mammography screening

Authors: Elif Zehra Yilmaz; Suzan Odabaşı

Addresses: Department of Economics, Uşak University, Uşak, Turkey ' Department of Economics, Uşak University, Uşak, Turkey

Abstract: Gender inequality is one of the key factors impeding development. Therefore, women's participation in labour market is closely related to women's well-being. This study analyses the impact of social and economic indicators on women's health outcomes using micro-level data. Three different health-related factors: (1) general health status, (2) disease well-being status and (3) mammography screening frequency are analysed as the dependent variables. Several socio-economic and health behaviour indicators are employed to estimate their impact on women's health outcomes in Turkey. The findings from the logistic regression approach show that individuals' access to health insurance, education levels and smoking behaviours have an impact on women's well-being.

Keywords: female labour force participation; health economics; access to health services; mammography screening frequency.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2024.144283

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 2024 Vol.9 No.3/4, pp.165 - 176

Received: 22 Mar 2024
Accepted: 28 Jun 2024
Published online: 04 Feb 2025 *

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