Türkiye’de Sağlık ve Sosyoekonomik Sınıf
Health And Socioeconomic Class in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: It is unfair for individuals to have poor health status due to their socioeconomic class. This article aims to examine the health polarization and inequality in Turkey from the perspective of socioeconomic class. Income and occupation category are taken as socioeconomic class indicator. To this end, newly developed polarization and inequality indices are employed. The data used in the study comes from the Income and Living Conditions Survey and covers the period 2006-2017. According to the index results, health polarization and inequality are decreasing for both men and women in the relevant period, regardless of the employment status. According to the regional results obtained from pooled data, the index reaches its highest values in the east of the country. Besides, an inverted-U relationship has been found between regional index results and regional average income. Index values vary according to both the income and occupation category. Concentration is mainly observed in occupational categories based on the low level of education and physical strength. The importance of socioeconomic class is verified by a multi-level mixed order logit estimation where determinants of health are estimated.

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