Impacts of Privatization of Management of Health Organizations on Public Health: Turkish Health Sector Evaluation

Health organizations have been known as non-profit organizations and privatization of these organizations seem to be liberalism in public management. On the other hand, new public business approaches showed that managing non- profit organizations as they are profit organizations increase quality in performance of these organizations. In other words, privatization of management for non-profit organizations is solution of new public business approach for performance increment. In Turkey, health organizations have been managed by professionals hired from outside of the organizations since 2009. In the research, it is aimed to evaluate results of the privatization of health management before and after privatization processes. SWOT analysis is performed and two different management approaches are compared in the perspectives of strategic management.