EXAMINATION OF GRADUATE THESIS IN TERMS OF CONTENT AND STRUCTURE IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT BETWEEN 2010-2018

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Aim: The aim of this study is to identify the current situation, to draw attention to mistakes made, and to raise awareness for students who want to write a thesis in this area in the future by examining the aims, abstracts, methods, results and bibliographies of postgraduate theses in the field of Health Management between 2010-2018. Methods: In this study, the department of Health Management has been scanned in the thesis database of the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) in Turkey. As a result of the examination, 463 theses were reached and 409 theses, which were open to access, have been subjected to content analysis by using Microsoft excel program. Findings: As a result of the study, 70% of the theses in the field of Health Management consist of quantitative researches. 23% of the scales used in quantitative studies were adapted from foreign scales. International Journal Health Management and Tourism https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijhmt UÇAR, AKBOLAT 460 There were various problems in writing of the abstract section of the theses. In addition, while the aims and results were compatible in 48.65% of the theses, 51.35% of them had some inconsistencies. Conclusion: When the bibliographies of the theses were examined, it was determined that while 20% or less of the sources used in 219 theses included foreign sources, there were also theses that did not use any foreign resources.