Table 2.

Geographic variations in health outcomes, availability of health resources and utilization of hospital services in Turkey, 2012

	Centraleast Anatolia	Central Anatolia	Northeast Anatolia	Istanbul	Southeast Anatolia	Aegean	East Marmara	East Black Sea	West Marmara	West Black Sea	West Anatolia	Mediterranean
Perinatal Mortality per 1000 live birth	10.9	7.1	10.9	6.7	11.3	7.5	7.5	7.0	7.8	8.4	6.7	7.6
Neonatal Mortality per 1000 live birth	6.5	3.9	6.3	3.2	6.2	3.5	3.7	3.8	3.9	3.9	3.0	3.7
Post-neonatal Mortality per 1000 live birth	4.6	3.3	4.1	2.2	4.4	2.3	2.2	3.0	2.5	3.0	2.5	3.3
Mortality under 5 years per 1000 live birth	16.7	10.8	13.9	8.2	16.1	8.7	9.0	9.9	9.1	9.9	8.3	10.8
Maternal Mortality per 1000 live birth	25.5	25.9	32.2	15.1	14.7	13.6	7.7	21.5	7.8	17.2	12.7	10.7
Poverty rate (%), 50% poverty risk threshold	13.4	12.4	13.2	9.6	12.8	11.6	10.8	11.1	13.0	12.0	12.9	13.7
Number of hospital beds per 10,000	26.7	28.4	28.8	23.3	19.7	27.2	26.1	33.1	27.4	30.3	35.8	23.8
Number of ICU beds per 10,000	2.9	2.9	2.0	3.3	3.1	3.1	3.0	2.9	2.4	2.8	3.8	3.3
Per Capita visits to hospitals	4.5	4.9	4.7	4.2	4.1	4.9	4.8	5.8	5.0	5.4	5.0	4.6
Physicians per 100,000 population	144	159	142	192	121	183	156	159	150	152	266	155
Nurses per 100,000 population	257	277	253	191	184	279	254	339	278	296	302	242
Surgical operations per 1000 population	49.5	63.4	57.2	56.3	49.6	58.0	59.1	59.8	44.4	53.6	73.8	64.7
Surgical operations per 1000 population (Group A)a	3.1	5.0	3.5	6.8	2.8	6.4	6.8	6.0	3.5	5.4	8.9	5.5
Number of MRI exams per 1000 population in hospitals	31.8	19.9	23.4	28.0	24.5	22.5	22.9	25.8	18.7	25.8	24.8	23.0
Bed Occupancy Ratio	65.4	60.8	65.0	70.1	67.9	67.5	67.8	62.2	67.8	62.2	68.5	68.6

Source: General Directorate of Health Research [22]

^*Surgical operations are classified into groups A to E based on the severity of the operations