Küresel İklim Değişikliği Küresel Cerrahi ve Cerrahi Hemşireliğini Nasıl Etkiliyor?

Yıl 2026, Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1 , 317 - 325 , 27.04.2026

Kıymet Öztepe Yeşilyurt , Tuğba Albayram

https://doi.org/10.46413/boneyusbad.1604111

https://izlik.org/JA93LL29WT

Öz

Çağımızda insan sağlığına yönelik en büyük tehditlerden biri haline gelen iklim değişikliği, geçmişten günümüze giderek artan bir endişe konusu olmuştur. İklim değişikliğinin neden olduğu hastalıkların doğası, şiddeti ve sıklığı insan sağlığını olumsuz etkileme potansiyeline sahiptir. Özellikle düşük ve orta gelirli ülkelerde karşılanmamış cerrahi hastalık yükünü ele almak için perioperatif bakımın iyileştirilmesine acil ihtiyaç vardır. Günümüzde cerrahi müdahalelerin gerekliliği ve yaygınlığı arttıkça, bu prosedürlerden kaynaklanan komplikasyonların önlenmesi ve tedavisi büyük önem kazanmıştır. İklim değişikliği bir sosyal adalet meselesi olduğundan, sağlık bakım profesyonelleri arasında en büyük grubu oluşturan hemşireler, sosyal adaleti sağlamak için insanları teşvik etmek ve iklim değişikliğine müdahale etmekle yükümlüdür. Bu derleme, iklim krizinin cerrahi, cerrahi bakım ve cerrahi hemşireliği alanına etkilerini açıklamayı amaçlamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

İklim değişikliği , Cerrahi hemşireliği , Genel cerrahi

How is Global Climate Change Affecting Global Surgery and Surgical Nursing?

https://izlik.org/JA93LL29WT

Öz

Climate change, which has become one of the biggest threats to human health in our age, has been a subject of increasing concern from past to present. The nature, severity and frequency of diseases caused by climate change have the potential to negatively affect human health. There is an urgent need to improve perioperative care to address the unmet surgical disease burden, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Today, as the necessity and prevalence of surgical interventions have increased, the prevention and treatment of complications arising from these procedures has become of paramount importance. Since climate change is a matter of social justice, nurses, who constitute the largest group among health care professionals, are obliged to encourage people and intervene in climate change in order to ensure social justice. This review aims to explain the effects of the climate crisis on the field of surgery, surgical care and surgical nursing.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Climate change , Surgical nursing , General surgery

Kaynakça

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