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Surgical operations are one of the critical indicators of performance in the health system. The purpose of the study is to find out the impact of the profession of physicianship on surgical interventions in big and small provinces. In the research, factors affecting the surgery indicator are investigated using the panel data analysis method. The study examines the data from Türkiye's 30 big and 51 small provinces between 2012-2019. In big and small provinces, the number of specialist physicians, outpatient visits, other health personnel and the average day of stay affect the number of surgeries positively, while the general practitioner indicator affects the number of surgeries negatively. It is deduced that the number of general practitioners considerably decreases the surgery indicator if the number of specialists substantially increases the surgery rate in big and small provinces. In addition, the number of specialists in big provinces have raised the rate of surgery much more than in small provinces. Nevertheless, the number of general practitioners reduces the rate of surgery more in big provinces than in small provinces. General physicians have a critical role in the preventive health services, early diagnosis of diseases, prevention and effective management of diseases. Through preventive medicine, early and effective interventions can halt the progression of diseases or eradicate them, thus minimizing the need for operation. It is essential to ensure equal health investments and opportunities without regard to the development levels of the provinces in terms of access to health services, and at the same time, it is necessary to make the society recognize that preventive medicine is an important level in improving public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the level of accessibility to health services in statistical regions according to the determined parameters in 2015-2019. Methods: In the study, the accessibility levels of health services were determined by using the data from the Ministry of Health Health Statistics Yearbook of 12 statistical regions according to the Statistical Regional Units Classification of Turkey. Research data is one of the Multicriteria Decision Making methods. Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution, using Microsoft Excel software. Results: The regions with the highest level of accessibility to health services are Eastern Black Sea, Western Anatolia, and Western Marmara in mortality, Western Black Sea and Western Marmara in use of health services, Western Marmara and Western Anatolia in preventive health services, Mediterranean and Western Anatolia in health infrastructure, Western Anatolia in health human resources, and Eastern Black Sea Region in emergency health services. The regions with the lowest level of accessibility to health services are Southeastern Anatolia, Middle Anatolia, and Northeastern Anatolia in mortality, Middle East Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia in health service usage, Istanbul, Northeast Anatolia, and Middle East Anatolia in preventive health services, Istanbul in emergency health services, and Southeast Anatolia in health human resources. Conclusion: Health policies are needed to solve the health needs of statistical regions in order to ensure accessibility to health services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Health communication is an interdisciplinary concept and set of practices that aims to explain the strategic importance of communication in addressing the health issues that we both directly experience and are indirectly affected by in the field of health, and to encourage applications towards this end. In the face of rising healthcare costs, the health field was integrated into the market system in the 1970s, with the aim of balancing its income and expenditure on the one hand, and making a profit from it on the other. In relation to this goal, the health services approach replaced the medical approach. This new approach aim to expand the field of health as a market by associating almost every aspect of life with health and including them in the scope of health. Health communication in the contemporary sense emerged at such a time, in an economic and political context driven by global dynamics. While health communication is beneficial in addressing health-related issues, its role as a means of legitimizing new health approaches driven by global macro dynamics creates a paradoxical situation. These dynamics, which are the primary determinants of increasing health problems, especially health inequalities, inherently limit the solutions that can be developed through health communication. This is a rather complex situation. Although it is aimed to develop strategic solutions to the problems in the field of health through health communication by neglecting this situation, it is still difficult to achieve this due to both the inherent uncertainties of the diseasehealth phenomenon and the problem-creating nature of the communication phenomenon itself. In addition, the concept of 'crisis pandemic' developed in this article highlights the interconnectedness of the problems in the field of health with other global problems, and therefore argues that these problems cannot be solved by developing solutions to the health system problems alone. The study examines the historical development of health communication and discusses the challenges that this discipline faces in providing solutions to the problems in the field of health and presenting successful practical examples in today's world. In this context, the concept and phenomenon of health communication, which is expected to solve some problems in the field of health and to improve the field, is questioned using the method of problematisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) are coronary artery diseases (CAD) with no long-term clinical change. It is common and negatively affects the quality of life of patients. The most common etiologic cause is atherosclerosis. The most important symptom is chest pain. Anamnesis and physical examination are usually diagnostic. Diagnostic tests guide decision making in those with moderate CAD suspicion. The use of multislice computer tomography is prominent in the diagnosis in recently guidelines. It is recommended to use functional diagnostic methods rather than anatomical diagnosis in treatment. The main treatment is medical treatment and preventive measures. In cases where medical treatment is inadequate, interventional treatments are recommended. CCS prognosis is quite good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that has an important role in maintaining calcium and phosphorus balance in our body, especially in the bone and skeletal system. It is known that vitamin D level is low in developing countries such as Turkey, while it should be normal or high, especially in people in sun-rich regions. Vitamin D prophylaxis in Turkey is recommended by the Ministry of Health to be given regularly for up to 12 months. However, we observed that some of the patients who applied to pediatric outpatient clinics did not comply with vitamin D prophylaxis. The aim of this study is to identify children who do not comply with vitamin D prophylaxis, to determine the reasons for not complying with prophylaxis, and to urge them to use vitamin D prophylaxis more effectively. Materials and Methods: Children between the ages of 0-12 months who applied to the Pediatric Health and Diseases outpatient clinic were evaluated, and a questionnaire was applied to the parents of a total of 405 children. Analyzes were evaluated in SPSS 26 package program. Chi-square analysis was used to compare categorical variables between groups. The statistical significance level in the analyzes was accepted as p<0.05. Results: While 90.9% of parents use vitamin D regularly for their babies, 6.4% use it irregularly, 2.7% do not use it at all. 77.3% of parents started using vitamin D for their children within 15-30 days after birth. The use of vitamin D for children was recommended by a physician to 98.5% of the parents. Of the parents who never used vitamin D for their children, 7 stated that it was too early to use it, and 1 stated that they did not use it because the baby's fontanelle was small. Of the parents who do not use it regularly, 10 stated that they stopped using it because of side effects, 5 because of neglect, and 4 because they ran out of vitamins. There was no statistically significant difference in the use of vitamin D according to the mother's job status, the education of the parents and the monthly income of the family. 92.0% of the parents who were recommended to use vitamin D for their baby by a physician and 16.7% of those who were not recommended to use vitamin D used vitamin D (p<0.001) Conclusions: In our study, it was determined that vitamin D was highly recommended by health professionals and although the rate of use was also high, it was determined that some parents either never used vitamin D in their babies or did not use it regularly. Reasons such as side effects of vitamin D, neglect of parents and thinking that it is too early to start vitamin D have led to not using vitamin D. It is suggested that physicians' recommendation of vitamin D prophylaxis is effective and therefore physicians should emphasize prophylaxis more frequently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the study, it was aimed to evaluate the basic knowledge and attitudes of students studying in under graduate health programs about HPV infection and HPV vaccines. The study was cross-sectional with 238 Dentistry Faculty and Health Sciences School students studying in Nevşehir between 25.04.2022 and 14.06.2022. The questionnaire was answered digitally and consisted of sociodemographic data, HPV infection information, HPV vaccine information, and attitudes toward HPV vaccines.186 of the participants were women (78.2%), the average age was 20.9 (min: 18; max: 33, ss: 1.65). Of tho se who know the relationship between cervical cancer and HPV infection are at the rate of 84%. It was observed that 86% of women and 82.6% of men believed that HPV vaccine was protective against cervical cancer. The rate of women who accepted the safety of the vaccine was 47.8%, while the rate of men was 34.6%.Inthestudy, the means core was 16.82 and the knowledge level of the participants was found to be 'sufficient'. In the study, the rate of women with sufficient HPV knowledge level was 51.6%, the proportion of men is 12.8%. While there was no significant relationship between the knowledge level of the participants and their gender (p=0.925), a statistically significant relationship was found between the programs they studied and their knowledge levels (p<0.001). The faculty of dentistry students constituted 42.9% (6/14) of the category of 'good', which is the highest level of knowledge. The results emphasize that more education and awareness s studies on HPV infection should be carried out so that future health professional candidates can take an active role in preventive health services and enlighten society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Giriş: Türkiye’de, çalışan kişi oranı fazladır. Bu nedenle çalışanların sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları önemlidir. Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı, çalışan bireylerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışlarını ve onları etkileyen faktörleri ortaya çıkarmaktır. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Kesitsel tipte olan bu araştırmanın evrenini, Giresun İl Merkezindeki çeşitli kurumlarda çalışan bireyler oluşturmuştur. Gönüllü olan bireylere kolayda örnekleme yöntemiyle ulaşılmıştır. Veriler yüz yüze görüşme yöntemine göre derlenmiştir. Araştırmada kullanılan anket formu iki bölümden oluşmaktadır: Birinci bölümde, sosyo-demografik özellikler araştırılmıştır. İkinci bölümde, sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışı ölçeği kullanılmıştır. p

Some serious childhood vision problems can be prevented by performing evaluations within the scope of preventive health services. Eye examinations should start in the newborn period. Age-appropriate vision assessment should be performed at all subsequent routine health checks. When eye problems that can be diagnosed and treated early are missed as a result of lack of follow-up, future treatment may be difficult or impossible. Performing eye examinations only once may cause some problems to be missed; this risk can be reduced with repetitive examinations in following years. When any suspicious situation or a significant pathology is detected, the patient should be referred to a pediatric ophthalmologist. The aim of this article is to explain the methods to be followed in child health follow-up and vision assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study will discuss the use of social media within the scope of health communication. The study aimed to analyze the social media use of companies in the health sector using augmented and virtual reality within the scope of health communication. The study is essential since there is no research on the health communication of health companies using augmented and virtual reality technology. While the health companies using the augmented and virtual reality technology of the universe of the study constitute the sample, the Youtube channel of the XRHealth company is selected by random sampling among these companies. The Youtube channel contents of XRHealth company were analyzed with the content analysis method in the Maxqda program, and the following results were obtained: Shares were made about primary health care services, health promotion/development, and preventive health services. Among these topics, preventive health services were mainly included. Within the scope of preventive health services, videos about doctors, patients, and pieces of training for both doctors and patients are published. In addition to rehabilitation services within primary health care services, virtual and augmented reality and diagnosis-treatment services were included in the video. Content aimed at least promoting and improving health has been produced on the Youtube channel. As a result, a high concentration of protective and primary health care services in video content reveals the importance of AR and VR technology in health education in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This digest was prepared to draw attention to the importance of health literacy in cancer awareness, relationship between cancer awareness and health literacy is examined in view of current information. Cancer ranks the second among the causes of death in our country and in the world. In the highly globalizing World, due to the population increase accompanied by aging, an increase in cancer disease is observed. This causes physical, emotional, and financial burdens on social health systems, so, cancer remains a significant public health issue. According to a World Health Organization report, 9.6 million people worldwide died of cancer in 2018, or one in six people. Cancer, falls into the category of non-communicable disease, is a chronic disease that progresses slowly, lasts for a long time with treatment, and monitoring which disrupts the quality of life of persons. Early diagnosis of cancer by persons and society, and awareness of people about it, with adequate knowledge about what they must do are fundamental steps for cancer awareness. Cancer is socially considered a malignant disease and public awareness about it is based on health literacy. According to the "Turkish health literacy level and related factors survey" conducted in 2017, health literacy level of 68.9% population was concluded as "inadequate and problematic". For the adequacy of health literacy level, individuals should access information sources, understand, and apply the information correctly. Awareness of cancer and level of health literacy play an important role in the early diagnosis of cancer to start earlier treatment. In societies with insufficient health literacy levels, low health care and preventive health services, raise the rates of non-communicable diseases, premature deaths. Because of negative social health provisions health care expenses increase. Countries should implement strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment by raising cancer awareness, since cancer is a serious threat to public health. In this context, information is available concerning the effectiveness of various intervention programs aiming individuals' own health to respect and improve their health by self-protection. Developing social awareness in health using various methods with correct steps will be effective in achieving a reasonable increase in the level of health literacy. Primarily the level of health literacy will be determined and following activities will constitute the pathfinder in terms of quality and quantity.It is obvious that in societies with a high level of health literacy, existence of higher awareness of cancer is a fact. To increase public health literacy level and cancer awareness, primarily health service providers, receivers of this service, and, other social institutions should share responsibilities in developing various methods of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency. Physicians are at high risk for COVID-19 due to their occupational exposure to infected patients. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the opinions of physicians, who are at the forefront of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, on prophylaxis and probable vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 infection through a questionnaire. Methods: Between 25 July and 8 August 2020, survey questions were sent to message groups with physicians via messaging programs developed for smartphones. Two hundred eleven physicians with different titles and working conditions who answered all of the questionnaire questions were included to the study. Results: The average age of the physicians participating in the survey was 39.3 ± 6.7. 186 (88.2%) of the physicians stated that there wasn't an effective prophylaxis against COVID-19 and 190 (90%) stated that they did not receive a prophylactic treatment. Nineteen (90.4%) of the physicians who received prophylactic treatment stated that they used hydroxychloroquine. Although the number of physicians who had been vaccinated against seasonal influenza vaccine was 37 (17.5%), 167 (79.1%) physicians stated that if a COVID-19 vaccine with similar effectiveness to the influenza vaccine existed; they would be vaccinated. Conclusions: The desire to administer COVID-19 vaccine among physicians is higher than seasonal influenza vaccination rates. Policies to increase vaccination rates should be followed in order to terminate the COVID-19 outbreak and prevent influenza co-infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this review, we discussed early intervention options in clinical highrisk state for psychosis, the limitations of the high-risk concept, and the importance of population-based approaches in preventing psychosis. Interventions for individuals at high risk for psychosis can be classified into two main categories: pharmacological and non-pharmacological. When choosing any of the intervention options, it should be taken into account that only a small proportion of individuals at the high-risk group would transition to clinical psychosis. In this regard, it is necessary to avoid aggressive interventions. Pharmacotherapies, particularly antipsychotics, are generally not considered as the first choice for individuals with high risk for psychosis due to their potential side effect profiles, whereas cognitive-behavioral therapies and family-oriented therapies stand out as alternatives with virtually no side effects. However, meta-analyses show that none of the interventions are specifically more effective than needs-based treatment (including placebo) for preventing the transition to psychosis. These interventions might not be effective for preventing transition to psychosis, but they might improve outcomes of psychosis. Accumulating evidence suggests that the targeted prevention approaches focused on the clinical high risk for psychosis concept has major limitations to make an impact in reducing psychosis incidence in the general population compared with the populationbased approaches. Recently, psychosis-focused prevention approaches have been replaced by easily accessible youth mental health centers that serve transdiagnostic conditions. Future studies on the effectiveness of these community-based youth mental health services may guide us on how to prevent psychosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Vaccines are an important preventive health service due to the high risk of infection in children with chronic kidney failure (CKF). This study aimed to examine the vaccination rate in children with CKF and affecting factors. Methods: Parents of 81 patients who were followed up with a diagnosis of CKF between the ages of 0-18 were included. The questionnaire form, consisting of 29 questions was applied to the parents using a face-to-face interview technique. The parents' demographic characteristics, the vaccination status of the patients with the vaccines in the national vaccination schedule, and vaccination status with meningococcal, influenza, and human papilloma virus that are not in the national vaccination schedule were recorded. Results: It was observed that 85.2% of the patients (n=69) had complete vaccinations in the national vaccination schedule, and 75.3% (n=61) of the parents received vaccination training. The immunization rate with vaccines in the national vaccination schedule of the children of parents who received vaccination training was statistically significantly higher than the children of parents who did not receive training (p<0.001). It was seen to be the least known human papilloma vaccine. Conclusion: It was found that the vaccination rate of patients with CKF was low. Vaccination training for parents should be increased, and their vaccination status should be followed more carefully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Due to the high contagiousness of the disease, changes have been made in the provision of health services all over the world, and health authorities have made calls to reduce hospital admissions except for urgent reasons. Access to non-COVID-19 healthcare services has declined sharply due to the restrictions imposed to prevent viral spread, fears about the uncertainty of the disease, the redirection of healthcare professionals to the follow-up, treatment and care of infected patients, the lack of personal protective equipment, and the financial difficulties brought on by the pandemic. The population most affected by this situation caused by COVID-19 has undoubtedly been children. Due to changes in health service delivery, maternal and child health services have been interrupted, and immunization rates have decreased greatly. The closure of outpatient clinics, inpatient services and the conversion of operating rooms to intensive care units in order to intervene with infected patients have caused delays in the diagnosis and treatment of acute or chronic diseases in children. Children with chronic diseases experienced shortages of drugs or medical equipment, and children who needed rehabilitation services could not receive supportive care. In addition, preventive mental health services could not be maintained with the closure of schools. Decreases in access to health services may have negative consequences on childhood mortality and morbidity all over the world, especially in low and middle-income countries. It is important to examine the data in the world in terms of maintaining the achievements for child health and planning health services in Turkey. Therefore, this review aimed to examine the effects of the decrease in access to health services on child health during the global epidemic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: According to the World Health Organization, approximately 17% of all infectious diseases are vector-borne diseases. Turkey has convinient climate and vegetation conditions for ticks, therefore Turkey is a risky country for diseases transmitted by ticks. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of tick bite and the factors affecting of tick bite in those living in Mahmudiye and Pınarbaşı villages in the rural area of Ezine district of Çanakkale. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2018 in the villages of Mahmudiye and Pınarbaşı of the Ezine district of Çanakkale. Before the study, permissions were obtained from the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The sample size was calculated as 329 people, by the formula of sample size used to estimate the population rate. A total of 420 people were contacted, including 292 from Mahmudiye and 128 from Pinarbasi. The nonprobability sampling method was used to reach the number of samples determined in the villages. The data of the study was obtained by a questionnaire which was applied by face to face interview technique. The questionnaire consisted of 23 questions questioning the demographic characteristics of participants, their knowledge and attitude about tick bite and tick-borne diseases. Logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the risk factors associated with a tick bite. After the data collection phase of the research, education about prevention from tick bites was given to women and men in both villages to prevent tick bites. Results: The prevalence of tick bite was 20%. The risk of tick bite was 3.4 times higher for males than females; 3.0 times higher for the people whom level of education below high school than high school and above; 3.4 times higher for occupations of farming, animal husbandry, agricultural technician, butchery than the other occupations. Conclusion: There are protective measures to prevent tick bite and the basis of preventive health services is health education. It is thought that training to be made for raising awareness about tick bites for individuals who live in rural areas, especially those who are engaged in agriculture and animal hunsbandry will be beneficial. In addition, we recommend screening for health problems that may be caused by tick bite in this rural area where one of five people was bitten by a tick. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amaç: İşitme sağlığının korunması ve iyileştirilmesi Odyoloji Biliminin önceliklerindendir. Bu çalışma, Odyoloji Bölümü öğretim üyeleri ve öğrencileri tarafından, üniversite içerisinde ve meslekleri nedeni ile gürültüye maruz kalan çalışanlarda işitme sağlığı ile ilgili farkındalık oluşturabilmek amacı ile planlanmıştır. Yöntem: İşitme sağlığı açısından risk oluşturan durumlar, işitme sağlığının korunması ve konu ile ilgili bilgi düzeyinin ölçülmesi alanlarını kapsayan sorular kullanılarak bir ölçek oluşturulmuştur. Ölçeğe, bir öğrenci grubunda denenerek alınan geribildirimler doğrultusunda gerekli düzenlemeler yapılarak son hali verilmiştir. Öğrenciler ders saatlerinde, çalışanlar iş yerlerinde ziyaret edilerek yanıtlar toplanmıştır. Tüm veriler SPSS programı ile değerlendirilmiştir. Bulgular: Katılımcıların, işitme sağlığının korunmasına yönelik olarak kaçınılması gereken durumlar konusunda farkındalık ve bilgilenme düzeyinin teorik açıdan yüksek olduğu görülmektedir. Ancak pratik uygulama örneklerinde, muhtemelen bilgi kaynaklarının güvenilirliğine bağlı olarak yetersizlik izlenmektedir. Sonuç: Gürültünün yanı sıra işitme kaybına yol açabilen diğer nedenler ve kulak yapılarının fonksiyonları konuları da bilgilendirme kapsamında olmalıdır. Toplanan veriler doğrultusunda ileride yapılacak bilgilendirme çalışmalarının planlanması düşünülmüştür.

The aim of this research is to evaluate protective and preventive mental health services with a holistic perspective through the experiences of social workers working in Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) and the patients receiving services from these centers. This research has designed as a qualitative research to expose the participants' experiences and evaluations about the protective and preventive dimension of community based mental health services. Descriptive analysis of the data has made. Six social workers and thirteen patients were interviewed. Semi-structured interview form, created by the researchers, has used. The most important finding of the research is that CMHCs provide an alternative to long-term inpatient treatment by providing continuity of treatment and follow-up, decreases the frequency of hospitalization, and contributes to the increase of social functionality, communication skills and self-confidence of patients. It is also that the society hasn't adequate information of mental illness, and this ignorance brings stigma and discrimination. Based on the research findings, it has been proposed to reorganize the social policies in line with the needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Increasing needs of individuals, changing patient-physician relationship, decreasing satisfaction of the patients, conducting business with the logic of health services, interest in preventive health services and being more inquisitive and investigative about the health status of the patients increase the interest of health care organization in marketing. Besides, the expectations of the community for health services are increasing day by day and new medical technologies are emerging. This changing situation increases the cost of health care organization and forces health care organization to use modern marketing techniques. Digital tools and techniques are needed for the integration of marketing and information technologies and digitalization of marketing. In this study, the use of digital marketing channels of five private health organizations operating under the same name and in more than one city in Turkey has been evaluated. It has been determined that all private health care organization lack deficiencies in the use of websites, mobile applications and social media. It was determined that the majority of private health care organization did not give importance to health blog management and search engine optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The new type of coronavirus (COVID-19), which spread all over the world in a short time in Wuhan city of China, started to be seen in our country in early March. In this article, we wanted to convey what we experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic as assistants of the Department of Family Medicine at Düzce University Research and Application Hospital. In the middle of March, health personnel personal protective measures trainings were organized by the Department of Hospital and Infectious Diseases. A pandemic tent was created in front of the Hospital Emergency entrance door. As of April 1, 2020, seizure lists were created in the Pandemic tent throughout the process, consistently of three doctors, two nurses, a secretary and a staff. During the pandemic, we read the guides published by the ministry of health and updated constantly, and renewed our knowledge about Covid-19. While many countries have had problems in terms of personal protective equipment, this problem has not been experienced in our hospital for a long time. As healthcare professionals and family physicians working as preventive medicine, we follow how the society is affected socially. Our anxieties continue even though the uncertainties about the disease, what happens next, how long we will live in this way, are still not clear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Studies on pediatric skin diseases in Turkey are not yet suffi- cient. It was aimed to characterize the prevalence of skin diseases, age and gender distribution in children living in the Erzincan region. Material and Methods: 10,115 children aged 0-16 years who reached to our outpatient clinic between 01.11.2014 and 30.11.2016 were included in the study. The frequency, age and gender distribution of the skin diseases were examined. The cases were divided into 4 groups; infantile period (0-2 years), preschool period (3-5 years), school period (6-11 years) and adolescence period (12-16 years). Skin diseases were categorized in 10 groups. A total of 148 skin diseases were identified. Results: 5376 of the patients were female (%53.14) and 4739 were male (%46.86). The most common disease groups are; infectious diseases (24.62%), eczema (21.95%), acne&follicular diseases (18.45%) and allergic skin diseases (11.02%). The most common diseases were acne vulgaris (17.82%), warts (10.03%) and irritant contact dermatitis (9.42%). The most common skin diseases in regard of different age groups are; contact dermatitis in the 0-2 years and 3-5 years age groups, warts in the 6-11 years age group, and acne vulgaris in 12-16 years age group. Conclusion: Most common diseases in our study are diseases that can be reduced by preventive health care and health education programs. There is a need for broad-based epidemiological studies in this area to establish preventive health care policies and to develop education programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family counselling is a psychological assistance given to a group of family members. It helps to individuals who have problems related to their children and/or their themselves during marriage, disagreement and divorce periods. Family counselling differs from other forms of counselling as it focuses on family system as a whole. The individuals are not defined for the problem. Instead, the problem of the family system is being determined. During this problem is being solved, by interviews that all of the family members are participated, the family counselor is at a manager position who directs the interviews. A family physician should provide a comprehensive and continuous preventive health care oriented to the individual and first step diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative health care to all individuals without distinction of age, gender and disease. He should take an active role in family counseling practice. Their task on family counselling will have an important role on the community health and the functionality of family relations. In this paper, a family who admitted to Family Counselling outpatient clinic of Department of Family Practice due to the problems that they have in their family is examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Design: The frequency and variety of dermatological diseases significantly changed after 2011 in the regions where the Syrian refugees migrated because of the civil war in Syria where is bordered by our country. To reveal these changing, the demographic and dermatological data of the Syrian refugees were retrospectively examined in faculty of medicine, department of dermatology of our city where a significant amount of Syrian refugees have been living. Materials and Methods: A total of 326 refugees immigrated to our city and have been living in tent cities, and applied to our department between September 2012-July 2014 were included to our study. Age, gender, dermatological and laboratory findings were retrospectively examined. Skin diseases were examined in 16 groups according to the their frequency. The patients were divided into 4 age groups as 0-20, 21-40, 41-60 and, 61 and over; three most common diseases for each age group were analyzed. Results: Of 326 patients, 126 (38.7%) were males, 200 (61.3%) were females and the difference was significant in term of gender. The age range of the patients was 0 to 77 years, and the mean age was 21.6±10.5. The majority of patients were in 0-20 age group. Dermatological infectious diseases were the most frequent diseases group and cutaneous leishmaniasis was the most diagnosed dermatological disease among patients. Conclusion: Preventive health care services should be performed to prevent dermatological infectious diseases which are commonly seen in Syrian refugees, especially cutaneous leishmaniasis which is already endemic in our country, and limitations to reach physicians of these patients should be amended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the second half of the last century; world achieved major success in the prevention and control of communicable diseases. As deaths in early life were successfully prevented and more people could live longer, health problems of the adults and the old age groups emerged. In line with the industrial developments, the life style of the communities changed, namely change of eating habits, exercise and tobacco use. Thus, the non-communicable diseases (NCD) have become the more common health problems of the "modern" societies. Non-communicable diseases have multifactorial etiology and no definitive treatment. Therefore, the needs for prevention of NCD's have become a major challenge. Although the preventive approaches for the NCD's are successful at the community level, their benefit for the individuals do not take much attention. This phenomenon is called as "paradox of prevention". In this article, causes of prevention paradox are discussed at society, health professionals and government levels, which are the main parties to the health services. The major factors at the society level are low health literacy level, invisibility of success in preventing disease, need to change of attitude and behavior, under estimation of prevention by employers and price rates system. Factors at the health professional's level are inability to identify the needs of the community clearly, lack of knowledge and motivation, inadequacy of incentive mechanisms for preventive health services, shift to therapeutic services and missing inequalities. At the government level, giving attention to the requests of society rather than needs and lack of supervisi on are important factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction and Objective: Prenatal care (PNC) is an important preventive health service for health of the mother and the fetus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quantity and quality of the prenatal care given by family physicians and gynecology experts in Bursa. Materials and methods: Universe of this cross-sectional study conducted in Bursa, February 4, 2013 consisted of 18.817 pregnant women. Number of pregnant women in the sample was calculated as 744 and they were determined by randomization among pregnant women registered to family physicians. Data were collected using data collection form prepared by the researchers. Data collection form contained questions about women's socio-demographic, biodemographic features and measuring, testing, information and consultancy services which ought to be done in prenatal period. Data was collected by midwives / nurses. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS package program. In the analysis of data, descriptive stastistics were used. Findings: In the study, 96.3% of pregnant women who were in or over a 33-week pregnancy or had given birth received prenatal care from family physicians, while all of them received prenatal care from obstetrics and gynecology specialists. 81.1% of pregnant women in this group, received their first prenatal care from family physicians and 94.3% of them received their first prenatal care from obstetrics and gynecology specialists within first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Blood pressure of 97.0% of pregnant women, who were in or over a 33 week pregnancy or had given birth and received prenatal care from family physicians, was measured, 20.7% of them had cardiac auscultation, 86.4% of them had blood examination and 51.1% of them had informed about breastfeeding. In the same group, blood pressure of 90.9% of pregnant women who received prenatal care from obstetrics and gynecology specialists was measured, 30.3% of them had cardiac auscultation, all of them had ultrasound scanning and 40.6% of them had informed about breastfeeding. Result: In Bursa, a sufficient number but low quality of prenatal care were given to pregnant women. In this context, health care personnel providing prenatal care should be given in-service trainings at regular intervals and Prenatal Management Guidelines should be used actively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study pedagogical works written during the reign of Abdulhamid II were analyzed. At that time some important scholar like Ayşe Sıdıka, Musa Kazım, Abdullah Vehbi and Melekzade Fuad wrote many books related to teaching and learning methodology. These aforementioned authors provided valuable advice to educators in many aspects. According to Ayşe Sıdıka, a teacher should be knowledgeable in various disciplines since they are dealing with people. For this reason, teachers, should - though not complete- have some information on practices such as preventive health services, psychology, corporal and spiritual discipline. Musa Kazim Bey argues that teaching is not an easy thing to do and teacher should always study more to succeed in their jobs. The knowledge acquired at teacher training institutions is easily forgotten most of the time and thus, teachers should continuously revise all their knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]