EVALUATION OF HEALTH EXPENDITURES IN TURKEY AND EU COUNTRIES A CLUSTER ANALYSIS

Purpose of this study is to evaluate 28 different European Union countries’ and Turkey’s health expenditures by rate and amount thus, specify the position of Turkey in European Union countries. Cluster analysis is one of methods being used in data mining to classify variables by their similarities and differences consideringly characteristic features. In this context, share of total health expenditures in gross domestic product, share of private health expenditures in gross domestic product and share of public health expenditures in gross domestic product were analyzed via cluster analysis.