Halk Sağlığı Hemşireliği Dergisi

Yazarlar: Salih GÜLER, İ̇brahim TOPUZ, Fatma ULUSOY

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Covid-19,Pandemic,Family Health Centers,Workers

Özet: The new coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which emerged on 11 March 2020, continues to negatively effect the whole world in many ways. Since the beginning of the pandemic process, healthcare professionals have been working with great devotion, putting themselves and indirectly the lives of their relatives at risk in achieving the goals of saving life and healthy individuals and society. Family health center workers, who are in a more vulnerable situation compared to secondary and tertiary healthcare professionals, primarily undertake the burden of preventive services and, when necessary, therapeutic services. In addition to all these, they and their relatives are worried about getting Covid-19 and trying to cope with it. In the pandemic, more than 3000 healthcare workers in 79 countries have lost their lives due to Covid-19 so far. In Turkey, it is reported that this figure 85, was up to date September, 12. In this text; it is aimed to provide informaiton about the status of family health center workers, who are the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic, and their experiences regarding the pandemic process.

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