Opinions of syrian refugee and turkish citizen pregnant women regarding the ministry of health's practices to combating smoking

Laws have been enacted by the Ministry of Health to protect health against smoking. We aimed to contribute to the literature by examining the opinions of the citizens of the Republic of Turkey, which was presented as a role model by the World Health Organization in the fight against smoking, and of Syrian refugees whose public life was disrupted and migrated due to the war, as well as was examined the effectiveness of the Ministry of Health's practices in this field on pregnant women. The universe of the study consisted of pregnant women who applied to the Harran University Chest Diseases Clinic between December 2019 and April 2021. The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 208 pregnant women who agreed to participate in the study. In the collection of the data, a participant identification form, which includes socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics, and a questionnaire to define the opinions of pregnant women on the anti-smoking practices of the Ministry of Health were applied to pregnant women. This study group consisted of 54.3% Syrian Refugee pregnant women and 45.7% of Turkish citizen pregnant women. This study was determined that 63% of Syrian refugee pregnant women and 37% of Turkish pregnant women smoked during their last pregnancy. A significant difference was found between the groups according to the age, presence of a smoker in the family, the smoking status of their spouse, and "State of knowledge of health problems caused by smoking" of Syrian Refugee and Turkish citizens pregnant. Our study is the first study that examines the opinions of pregnant regarding the smoking cessation practices of the Ministry of Health in the field and compares Syrian refugee-Turkish citizens pregnant. Active smoking of pregnant and the rate of exposure to passive smoking by their spouse or others living in-house suggest that smoking is still a major threat for pregnant. It has shown that the practices of the Ministry of Health in the field are known and supported by pregnant, but these practices are far from the inspection mechanisms. [Med-Science 2022; 11(2.000): 540-6

The relationship between particulate matter and childhood respiratory complaints and peak expiratory flows in Harran agricultural area

Background. In recent years, many studies have evaluated the increasing incidence of asthma and chronic respiratory diseases among children living close to rural areas with pesticide application. Pesticide exposure in 266 children (126 girls and 140 boys) in Sanliurfa, a cotton-producing province in Turkey, was explored in this work. Four different villages spread over 40 km(2) were included. Methods. Measurements of peak expiratory flow (PEF) in 266 children were conducted in late June, before intensive pesticide applications in the cotton-producing fields. The measurements were repeated for 72 of 266 children after pesticide application in late August. PEF, particulate matter with diameter less than 2.5 mu m (PM2.5), particulate matter with diameter less than 10 mu m (PM10), temperature, humidity, and wind speed were measured. Results. After pesticide application, mean PM2.5 and PM10 values were significantly increased compared to before pesticide application (p < 0.001 for both parameters). After pesticide exposure, nasal discharge, sneezing, burning and itching in the eyes, cough, sputum production, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness were significantly increased (p < 0.001). The mean PEF value was demonstrated to decrease significantly after pesticide application (p < 0.001). Moreover, significant negative correlations were noted between PEF and PM10 and between PEF and PM2.5 (p < 0.001). Conclusions. Intensive pesticide application causes respiratory dysfunction and increased respiratory complaints in children living near the affected agricultural areas, and impacts quality of life adversely. The results of this work can be used to develop an early warning system and methods to prevent respiratory disorders in children residing in the study area.Turkish Thoracic SocietyThe authors wish to express their thanks to the Turkish Thoracic Society for providing financial support for this work.WOS:0006461794000102-s2.0-85105220171PubMed: 3392911

Privatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey

Private security has become a central form of everyday policing in the Southern and Northern countries alike, and has thereby redefined the modern conception of security, conventionally understood as the exclusive domain of the state. The relevant academic literature has seemed to problematize the issue either as a facet of the erosion of state monopoly of violence or as a dispersion of neoliberal governmentality. These positions - neo-Weberian and neo-Foucauldian, respectively - fail to grasp both the role of the capitalist state in the privatization of security and its class character. The Turkish case is quite telling about the constitutive role of the state in this process, which has been a class-driven project, reflecting contested class relations, from the 1960s to the 2000s

What should be the appropriate minimal duration for patient examination and evaluation in pulmonary outpatient clinics?

INTRODUCTION: Patient examinations performed in a limited time period may lead to impairment in patient and physician relationship, defective and erroneous diagnosis, inappropriate prescriptions, less common use of preventive medicine practices, poor patient satisfaction, and increased violent acts against health-care staff