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Objective: It was aimed to determine the demographic features of children with mental disabilities and children with physical disabilities, their utilization of health services and their expectations from health services. Methods: The population-based descriptive study was conducted in Konya in 2009. All participants with disabilities that could be reached via the information support of public hospitals, health centers, Provincial Directorate for Social Services and other related institutions are included in the research. Data was obtained from the families by face to face interview at participants' home or in the appointed places. A survey was used about demographic features of disabled children, their benefiting from health services and their expectations. Results: Of the disabled children in the study included 177 (68.6%) were boys and 81 (31.4%) were girls. With 16.7% of families of children have had no health insurance and 32.9 % of the parents had consanguinity marriage. 36.0% of the children with disabilities were the first child of the family. The first institution they preferred to benefit from was hospital with a percentage of 53.5%. The most common services they receive 28.3% of health institutions did not find physically inappropriate. Rate of complainant was 31.8% of health services and 21.3% of health staff's behaviors. Of the families having children with disabilities 50.0% had more expectations from health services. Conclusion: Developing physical and social conditions of health care institutions for disabled persons, increasing to benefit for disabled persons from the primary health institutions and improving relationship between disabled person and health staff might be useful to satisfy the expectations of the disabled persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare and assess the opinions of medical staff and community about medical errors. Methods: The sample of the study, for medical personnel survey, consisted of staffs of all public hospitals and 12 randomly selected family health centers in Konya city center. Similarly, for the community sample, adults from 12 randomly selected neighborhoods in three central districts were selected and they were reached in their addresses by cluster sampling method. 156 physician, 333 nurse and 240 people from community were included to the study. Medical staff and community forms of Medical Errors Survey, which was developed by the researchers, were used in data gathering. Results: 23% of the medical personnel and 22% of the individuals from community stated that they or one of their families had been subjected to medical errors. 27% of the subjected medical staff and 36% of the subjected individuals from community expressed that they had received serious harm. Half of the participants considered both the person who made the error and the healthcare facility responsible. The idea that patients also had responsibilities for a safer healthcare was more popular among medical personnel. The both groups agreed on most causes of medical errors although medical personnel emphasized on "long working hours" while the community pointed "inadequate time spared by physicians for patients" as a major cause. Conclusion: A significant part of the medical personnel and the community are being harmed by avoidable medical errors. Increasing the involvement of health service receivers in service process and utilizing their opinions about medical errors for improvement may contribute to decreasing the medical errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: In this study, researching the utilization of KETEM records in estimating the incidence and determining the demographic view of cancer incidents reported in relatives of people who applied to KETEM is aimed. Methods: This descriptive record scanning study was performed on the records on 2007-2010 kept in Konya KETEM, in 2011. The necessary information for study was skimmed from the KETEM's data on electronic medium and transformed into an Excel file under the supervision of electronic record technician without using personal information. Results: Mean age of 21802 people who had applied to Konya KETEM in 2007-2010 was 44±12 and 94% of them were females. Applications were mostly made in March-April and their numbers decreased as the years passed. Totally, 46548 scanning were made on 21802 people about breast, cervix, skin, colon and prostate panels. 6556 of them (30%) reported cancer story in family and close relatives. Most frequently reported cancer types were lung, breast and colon. The relatives who were most frequently reported to have cancer were father, mother and sibling. Reporting cancer in a relative was related to smoking, menopause, age of last pregnancy and total breastfeeding time. Our findings related frequency of cancers from KETEM records were parallel to national cancer records. Conclusion: One third of KETEM applicants had cancer story in family or close relative and most frequently reported cancer types were breast and lung cancers. KETEM records may contribute to cancer map of population and incidence calculations. Key words: Cancer, screening, demography, incidence, KETEM [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]