Sağlık Bilimleri ve Meslekleri Dergisi

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Social responsibility is a concept in which
corporations can meet its main goals of accomplishing a particular public effort
or of increasing shareholders’ profits, but at the same time fulfilling other
important objectives namely with public benefits. Corporate social
responsibility (CSR), has become an important subject which should be taken into
consideration with the based on voluntariness in the whole production processes
of all enterprises producing commodities and service. Like other organizations
in the society, health sector and its corporations, with the mission of
providing healthcare services, should engage in the social activities and take
its social responsibility. In this context, activities carried out on CSR by
hospitals show an increasing trend in the health sector as well. The
fulfillment of hospitals' social responsibilities requires not only compliance
with general ethical principles or legislation, but also voluntary activities
of collecting usefulness. The purpose of this compilation is to clarify the
place and importance of CSR in the health sector by looking at the historical
development and benefits of CSR.