More than 20 million applications were made to Healthy Life Centers in one year.

20,366,274 applications were made in one year to Healthy Life Centers, which provide services to citizens throughout Türkiye to gain healthy living habits.

According to information compiled by an AA correspondent from Ministry of Health data, Healthy Life Centers (SMH), established to protect individuals and society from health risks, promote healthy lifestyles, and strengthen primary health care services, serve within the scope of the Healthy Turkey Century Program with its "Protective, Developing, and Productive Health Model."

Whether or not they have social security, everyone can benefit from SHMs free of charge, where services such as nutrition counseling, psychosocial support, physiotherapy, child development, combating addiction and obesity, healthy aging, and improving the society's quality of life are offered.

Applications can be made by scheduling an appointment with a case coordinator through the MHRS (Central Respiratory Health Services Administration) through the patient's family physician, or by scheduling an appointment directly with the Health and Safety Officer (HSM). Additionally, case coordinators are assigned to the centers to facilitate access for citizens.

Healthy Life Centers offer services in 16 areas. These services include Nutrition Counseling, Physical Activity Counseling, Chronic Disease Management Services, Women's and Reproductive Health Counseling, KETEM, Child and Adolescent Health Counseling, Smoking Cessation and Drug Abuse, Social Service Counseling, Individual Counseling, Infection Control Services, Infectious Disease Control Services, School Health Services, Preventive Oral and Dental Health Services, Injection Dressing Services, Imaging Services, and Laboratory Services.

Health training is also provided for the public and staff at SHMs.

Within the scope of the "Preventive Health" model, Healthy Life Academies (SAHA) were established in SSCs to increase the level of health literacy of individuals, to enable them to benefit more effectively from health services, to improve their quality of life, to raise public awareness of health issues, to ensure that they live healthier lives, to age healthily, and to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

According to the Ministry's data, a total of 20 million 366 thousand 274 applications were made to the SHM in the period between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025.

The number of applications according to the services offered at the centers where 5 million 432 thousand 383 people received training is as follows:

"- 4 million 623 thousand 854 KETEM Services

- 1 million 67 thousand 277 Infection Control Services

- 429,434 Reproductive Health Services,

- 192,797 Pregnant Women Receiving Education in Pregnant Schools

- 123,663 Premarital Counseling Services

- 84,062 Tobacco and Substance Addiction Consultancy

- 3,375,229 School Health Services

- 2 million 686 thousand 35 Preventive Oral and Dental Health Services

- 803,278 Nutrition Consultations

- 494,849 Physical Activity Consultations

- 245,334 Psychological Counseling

- 137,256 Child Development Consultants

- 95,929 Social Service Consultancy

- 218,947 Laboratory Services

- 184 thousand 749 Infection and Dressing Services."