Predicting Health Spending in Turkey Using theGPR, SVR, and DT Models

dc.contributor.authorGüleryüz, Didem
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-04T19:06:40Z
dc.date.available2024-10-04T19:06:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentBayburt Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractRising healthcare costs for countries and the long-term maintainability of this situation are at the center ofthe political agenda. The steady increase in health spending puts pressure on government budgets, healthcare,and personal patient financing. Policymakers would like to plan reforms to reduce these costs to adapt toproblems that may arise. This has led planners to decision support systems and forecasting models. In thispaper, three machine learnings algoritms, namely Support Vector Regression (SVR), Decision TreeRegression (DT), and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) are employed to design a forecasting model forHealth Spendings (HS) of Turkey considering various determinants. Gross domestic product per capita,urban population rate, unemployment rate, population ages 65 and above, the life expectancy, the physicians’rate, and the total number of hospital beds are used as inputs. The data set consists of 30 years between 1990- 2019, which splits as training and test sets. Developed models were compared considering performancemetrics, and the most accurate model was identified. The coefficient of determinations (R2 ) for SVR, GPR,and DT models are 0.9929, 0.9989, and 0.9611 in the training phase, 0.9536, 0.8944, and 0.1166 in the testingstage, respectively. Therefore, the SVR model has accurate prediction results with the highest R2and the leastroot mean square error values in the testing phase. The study showed that the proposed SVR model reducedRMSE value by 32.02% and 39.66% compared to the GPR and DT models, respectively. Consequently, theHealth Spendings of Turkey can be predicted by employing SVR with high accuracy.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.26650/acin.882660
dc.identifier.endpage166en_US
dc.identifier.issn2602-3563
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage155en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid463552en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26650/acin.882660
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/463552
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12403/4647
dc.identifier.volume5en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofActa Infologicaen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titlePredicting Health Spending in Turkey Using theGPR, SVR, and DT Modelsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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