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                                                                <journal-id>estüdam halk sağlığı dergisi</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Eskişehir Türk Dünyası Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Halk Sağlığı Dergisi</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2564-6311</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2564-6311</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
                </publisher>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.35232/estudamhsd.1039165</article-id>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="en">
                                                            <subject>Public Health</subject>
                                                            <subject>Environmental Health</subject>
                                                    </subj-group>
                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Halk Sağlığı</subject>
                                                            <subject>Çevre Sağlığı</subject>
                                                    </subj-group>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>THE KNOWLEDGE LEVELS AND OPINIONS OF ACADEMICS FROM KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FACULTIES REGARDING ELECTRONIC WASTES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Meslek Yüksek Okulları, Mühendislik ve Teknoloji Fakülteleri Akademisyenlerinin Elektronik Atıklar ve Bu Atıkların İnsan ve Çevre Sağlığına Etkileri Hakkındaki Bilgi Düzeyleri ve Düşünceleri</trans-title>
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                                                    <contrib-group content-type="authors">
                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-3915</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Özen</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nalan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4047-4027</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Topbaş</surname>
                                    <given-names>Murat</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6089-9829</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Üstündağ</surname>
                                    <given-names>Medine Gözde</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4664-9070</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Beyhun</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nazım Ercüment</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-2928</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Turhan</surname>
                                    <given-names>Sevil</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                                                </contrib-group>
                        
                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20221020">
                    <day>10</day>
                    <month>20</month>
                    <year>2022</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>7</volume>
                                        <issue>3</issue>
                                        <fpage>422</fpage>
                                        <lpage>435</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20211221">
                        <day>12</day>
                        <month>21</month>
                        <year>2021</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20220614">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>14</month>
                        <year>2022</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2016, Eskişehir Türk Dünyası Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Halk Sağlığı Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Eskişehir Türk Dünyası Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Halk Sağlığı Dergisi</copyright-holder>
                </permissions>
            
                                                                                                <abstract><p>The useful life of electrical and electronic devices is rapidly ending, there is a rapid transition to new products, and a new type of wasteknown as electronic waste (e-waste) emerges. The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge and opinions of academicsconcerning e-waste regulations in Turkey and the effects of e-waste on human and environmental health. This study involved 267academics working at Karadeniz Technical University. An online questionnaire consisting of 50 questions was used for data collection.The Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, Pearson chi-square, Fisher&#039;s Exact test, and Spearman correlation were used for statisticalanalysis. Analysis showed that 45.3% of the participants reported not paying attention to the recycling, with 90.1% of those beingunaware of the procedures involved. Only 4.9% of the participants had received education concerning e-waste. Participants who hadreceived such education registered significantly higher mean total knowledge scores concerning e-waste regulations and the effects ofe-waste on human and environmental health than those with no such education (p&amp;lt;0.001). Mean total knowledge scores weresignificantly higher among participants who paid attention to the recycling (p&amp;lt;0.001). Few participants have received education one-waste, about half of them don’t pay attention to recycling and a large part of those who don’t pay attention are unaware of the relevantprocedures. The high mean of knowledge scores among participants who paid attention to e-waste and contributed to recycling revealsthe importance of policies and education programs aimed at increasing individual awareness and producing desired behaviors.Keywords: Electronic waste, environmental health, public health, recycling.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Elektrikli ve elektronik cihazların kullanım ömürleri hızlı dolmakta, yeni ürünlere hızlı geçiş olmakta ve elektronik atık (e-atık) olarakbilinen yeni bir atık türü ortaya çıkmaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı, akademisyenlerin ülkemizdeki e-atık düzenlemeleri ile e-atıkların insanve çevre sağlığına etkileri konusundaki bilgi ve düşüncelerini incelemektir. Bu çalışma Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi&#039;nde görev yapanakademisyenler üzerinde gerçekleştirilmiş ve çalışmaya 267 akademisyen dahil edilmiştir. Veri toplamak için 50 sorudan oluşançevrimiçi bir anket kullanılmıştır. İstatistiksel analiz için Mann Whitney U, Kruskall Wallis, Pearson ki-kare, Fisher&#039;s Exact Test veSpearman korelasyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların %45,3&#039;ü e-atık geri dönüşümüne dikkat etmediğini, e-atık geri dönüşümünedikkat etmeyenlerin ise %90,1&#039;i ülkemizdeki uygulamaları bilmediğini belirtmiştir. Katılımcıların sadece %4,9&#039;u e-atık konusunda eğitimalmıştır. Eğitim alanların ülkemizdeki e-atık mevzuatı ve e-atıkların insan ve çevre sağlığına etkileri konusundaki toplam bilgi puanortalamaları eğitim almayanlara göre istatistiksel olarak önemli bir şekilde yüksek bulunmuştur (p&amp;lt;0,001). Benzer şekilde, e-atıklarıngeri dönüşümüne dikkat edenlerin toplam bilgi puan ortalaması geri dönüşüm konusuna dikkat etmeyenlere göre önemli bir şekildeyüksek bulunmuştur (p&amp;lt;0,001). Çok az katılımcı e-atık konusunda eğitim almış olup katılımcıların yaklaşık yarısı geri dönüşüme dikkatetmemektedir ve geri dönüşümüne dikkat etmeyenlerin büyük bir bölümü uygulamaları bilmemektedir. E-atık konusuna önem veren vegeri dönüşüme katkı sağlayanların bilgi puanlarının yüksek olması, bireysel farkındalığı artırmak ve istendik yönde davranışlarıoluşturmak için uygulanacak politikaların ve eğitim programlarının önemini ortaya koymaktadır.Anahtar kelimeler: Çevre sağlığı, elektronik atık, geri dönüşüm, halk sağlığı.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Electronic waste</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Environmental Health</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Public Health</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Recycling</kwd>
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                                                                            <kwd-group xml:lang="tr">
                                                    <kwd>Elektronik atık</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Çevre sağlığı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Halk sağlığı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Geri dönüşüm</kwd>
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