Financial analyses of ODHCs in Turkey in terms of profitability

Abstract

Oral and Dental Health Centers (ODHC), which occupy an important place in health services, have increased in number with the Health Transformation Program (HTP) implemented in Turkey (Islıcık & Yar, 2018). In this way, public access to dental treatment services has been facilitated and have allowed them to gain continuity. These services, which allow people to increase their well-being , contribute to the mental well-being of individuals, but also come to the fore in their therapeutic aspect. Services, whose contribution is undeniable in terms of social benefit, require quite high amounts of resources from the point of view of the country's economy. This also requires a financial performance analysis.
Dentists are one of the most important factors for ODHCs to continue their work regularly. For this reason, in the study, financial performance analyzes of existing ODHCs depending on the variable of profit per dentist were carried out with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Inverse Distance Weighting-IDW and related maps were produced. When the GIS findings are evaluated, a more understandable result is obtained by visualizing the financial performance analysis of 128 public ODHCs, and the importance levels of the variables that affect the performance are also revealed.