Kara, Ahmet2020-11-212020-11-2120130033-5177https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-011-9643-6https://hdl.handle.net/11467/3520This paper develops an applied stochastic model of public health care and shows that the public health care sector in Turkey is plagued by a low quality-high cost-low satisfaction trap which has been persistent over time. The values in question are shown to be stochastically stable. We formulate an efficiency-quality-welfare improving stochastic policy rule, which helps the sector to reach a selected target and which stabilizes quality, cost and welfare around that target. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHealth care sectorQualityStochastic equilibriaArticle47420812093Q2WOS:000316267500017Q12-s2.0-8487496980610.1007/s11135-011-9643-6