Oya Akpinar Oruc, Serife Ozdinc, Hulya Sevil
Medicine Science - 2026;15(1):326-331
In this research, it was aimed to examine the impact of emergency department numbers on healthy life expectancy and mortality at the multivariate level. Ministry of Health Annual Reports, World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory database and the World Bank Country Reports were used as data gathering. Healthy Life (HALE) at birth and Healthy Life at age 60, suicide, disease and maternal mortality rates were used as dependent variables. The number of emergency services was used as an independent variable, whereas Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP) and health expenditures were used as controlling variables. Number of emergency services was significantly correlated with HALE at birth (r=0.936; p<0.01), suicide mortality (r=-0.793; p<0.01), disease mortality (r=-0.975; p<0.01), health expenditure (r=-0.778; p<0.01) and GDP per capita (r=0.993; p<0.01). The number of emergency services was only positively affected on HALE at birth according to regression analysis (B=0.003; p<0.01). Its effects on HALE at age 60, suicide mortality, maternal mortality and disease mortality were statistically insignificant at the multivariate level (p>0.05). Although emergency services make a positive contribution to healthy life expectancy and mortality in the correlation analysis, this effect is not sufficient according to the regression analysis. Although there are improvements in emergency services in terms of numbers and the population addressed, the services given in the emergency services also must be improved.
