COVID-19 PANDEMİSİNDE SAĞLIK ÇALIŞANLARI

Year 2020, Volume: 5 - COVID-19 Special Issue, 156 - 168, 28.09.2020

Seval Çalışkan Pala Selma Metintas

https://doi.org/10.35232/estudamhsd.789806

Cited By: 34

Abstract

Pandemiler, çok sayıda can kaybına ve fiziksel, ruhsal sorunlara sebebiyet vererek ciddi halk sağlığı tehdidi oluştururlar. Sağlık çalışanları, pandemilerde yüksek risk taşıyan meslek gruplarındandır. Dünyanın yeni karşılaştığı enfeksiyon hastalıklarından olan COVID-19 pandemisinin ilk dönemlerinde Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’ne 52 ülkeden 22.073 sağlık çalışanın hastalığa yakalandığı bildirimi yapılmıştır. Bugüne kadar, sağlık çalışanları arasında COVID-19’a yakalananların sayısı hakkında bilgi sağlayan sınırlı sayıda yayın ve ulusal durum raporu bulunmakta olup, tahminler bildirilen sayının çok daha üstünde olduğu yönündedir. COVID-19 ile ilgili ilk çalışma sonuçları, hastaların %10 hatta %20'sinin sağlık çalışanlarından oluştuğunu göstermektedir. Sağlık çalışanlarının çoğunda enfeksiyon hafif seyretmesine rağmen, ölümler de dahil olmak üzere ciddi sonuçlar bildirilmektedir. Derlemede, COVID-19 pandemisinde sağlık çalışanlarının etkene maruziyetleri, risk faktörleri, mesleki sorumlulukları, yaşadıkları sorunlar ve nasıl korunabilecekleri ile ilgili bilgiler ele alınmıştır.

Keywords

Sağlık çalışanı, COVID-19, pandemi

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Pandemics pose a serious public health threat by causing many deaths, physical and mental problems.
Healthcare workers are among the occupational groups with high risk in pandemics. In the early stages of the
COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the infectious diseases that the world has recently faced, a notification was
made to the World Health Organization that 22,073 healthcare workers from 52 countries had the disease. To
date, there are a limited number of publications and national status reports that provide information on the
number of people caught with COVID-19 among healthcare workers, and estimates are much higher than the
reported number. Early study results on COVID-19 show that 10% or even 20% of patients are healthcare
workers. Although the infection is mild in most healthcare workers, serious outcomes, including deaths, have
been reported. In the review, information about healthcare workers' exposure to the factor, risk factors,
professional responsibilities, problems they experience, and how they can be protected in the COVID-19
pandemic were discussed.

Keywords

Healthcare professionals, COVID-19, pandemics

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