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20. Optimizing the Access to Healthcare Services in Dense Refugee Hosting Urban Areas: A Case for Istanbul

Authors : M. Tarik Altuncu, Ayse Seyyide Kaptaner, Nur Sevencan

Published in: Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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With over 3.5 million refugees, Turkey continues to host the world’s largest refugee population. This introduced several challenges in many areas including access to healthcare system. Refugees have legal rights to free healthcare services in Turkey’s public hospitals. With the aim of increasing healthcare access for refugees, we looked at where the lack of infrastructure is felt the most. Our study attempts to address these problems by assessing whether Migrant Health Centers’ locations are optimal. The aim of this study is to improve refugees’ access to healthcare services in Istanbul by improving the locations of health facilities available to them. We used call data records provided by Turk Telekom.

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Title: Optimizing the Access to Healthcare Services in Dense Refugee Hosting Urban Areas: A Case for Istanbul
Authors: M. Tarik Altuncu
Ayse Seyyide Kaptaner
Nur Sevencan
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-12553-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-12554-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_20

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