Serap Taşkaya

The Relationship between Health Indicators and Development Ranks of Provinces in Turkey

It is known that health has a significant positive effect on the rate of economic development in a country. However current research rarely permits the understanding of what the most important indicators are in the level of development. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between health indicators and development levels of provinces. The data on the development level of the provinces was obtained from “Socio-Economic Development Ranking of Provinces and Regions,” published in 2013 by the Ministry of Development of the Republic of Turkey. The number of health workers per ten thousand people, the number of hospitals, hospital beds, and the infant mortality rate by provinces was obtained from the web site of the Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI). At the end of the multiple regression analyses, it was found that the development ranks of provinces was effected by the number of pharmacists per ten thousand people, and the number of hospitals. According to these findings, the human resources for health, especially the number of pharmacists per ten thousand and the number of hospitals, could be taken into account in research on development rankings, and these indicators could be used as substitution variables for the development levels.

The Effects of Psychological Contract Violations in Organizations on Organizational Trust and Alienation: An Application in the Healthcare Sector

Concepts such psychological contract, trust, and alienation are of great importance for organizations today. Due to the unique characteristics of healthcare services in particular, healthcare employees are adversely affected by such concepts, which may result in an even heavier burden. The objective of this research was to determine the effects of healthcare employees’ perceptions toward psychological contract violations on their organizational trust and alienation levels. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 110 employees working in a public hospital in the province of Konya, Turkey. According to this study’s findings, while organizational trust was found to decrease and organizational alienation increased as participants’ perceived psychological contract violation increased, organizational alienation was found to decrease as trust in one’s manager and colleagues increased.