Have the Turkish peoples adopted the family medicine model? Evidence from Google trends

Bekir Aktura, Nilüfer Aktura

Keywords: Turkey, family medicine model, primary healthcare

Background:
The old primary healthcare model in Turkey at the end of 2010 completed the transition to a new family medicine model.

Research questions:
Were people adopting this new health system model in Turkey?

Method:
We are focused on GT data covering the years from 2012 to 2019 throughout Turkey fort his ecological study . We identified keywords representing the old primary healthcare model and the new family medicine model to measure adoption of the new family medicine model.

Results:
The adoption ratio of the new family medicine model, which was 75,6% in 2012, decreased to 46,5% as it came to 2019.

Conclusions:
The adoption of the new family medicine model has fallen behind the old primary heath care model since 2017. It should be studied extensively.

Points for discussion:
Adoption of the family medicine model in Turkey is dwindling.