Abstract:

Societies of healthy individuals who are in good physical and mental condition have a good position in terms of their levels of well-being and development. Therefore, any kind of healing and development in the field of health will first affect individuals and then communities in a good direction. The aim of this study is to obtain rankings by assessing the 36 OECD member countries under defined health indicator criteria. The SWARA (Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) method was used to determine the weights of the criteria used in the evaluation, and the newly developed multi-criterial decision-making methods, WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment) and CODAS (Combinative Distance-Based Assessment) were used to determine where the countries were ranked. The Spearman correlation ratio has been used to determine the relationship between the rankings achieved as a result of the methods used.

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Abstract:

Societies composed of physically and psychological healthy individuals have a good position in terms of welfare and development levels. Therefore, any improvement and development in the field of health will affect firstly individuals and then societies in good direction. The aim of this study is to obtain the rankings of 36 member countries of the OECD under the defined health indicator criteria. SWARA (Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) was used to determine the weights of criteria and then WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment) and CODAS (Combinative Distance Based Assessment) which are newly proposed Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods in the literature were used to find the ranking of the countries. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between the obtained results.