Huseyin Kucukali

Huseyin Kucukali
Queen's University Belfast | QUB · Centre for Public Health

M.D., Ph.D.

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Introduction
I use systems thinking, AI, and behavioral science to innovate prevention of diseases and health inequities.
Education
September 2016 - July 2021
İstanbul University-Cerrahpasa
Field of study
  • Public Health
September 2010 - July 2016
Istanbul University
Field of study
  • Medicine

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Publications (63)
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Twitter is a useful source for detecting anti-vaccine content due to the increasing prevalence of these arguments on social media. We aimed to identify the prominent themes about vaccine hesitancy and refusal on social media posts in Turkish during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this qualitative study, we collected public tweets (n = 551,245) that conta...
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Background and Objective: While COVID-19 pandemic is still causing more than twenty thousand cases and more than two hundred deaths in Turkey, an anti-vaccine rally was held in Istanbul and the agenda was created by running a campaign on social media. The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of the conversations on social media about...
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Background Most of the studies regarding the relationship between socioeconomic status and occurrence of COVID-19 are usually ecological studies and have limitations due to ecological fallacy. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status and individual-level risk of developing COVID-19. Methods We conducted...
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Influencer marketing activities of the tobacco industry on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram have increased tremendously in recent years. Either sponsored or personal contents in social media can influence the behaviours of people. Yet primary prevention and health promotion strategies against them are absent. Di...
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Introduction Tobacco companies use social media to bypass marketing restrictions. Studies show that exposure to tobacco promotion on social media influences subsequent smoking behavior, yet it is challenging to monitor such content. We developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically identify tobacco-promoting content on social media. M...
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Objectives This study explores the spatial disparities in COVID-19 incidence across neighborhoods in Uskudar, Istanbul, and examines the relationship between these disparities and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status. Methods This ecological study analyzed cumulative COVID-19 case data for 33 neighborhoods in Uskudar, collected up to 31 Decembe...
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the examination of behavioural factors contributing to its spread. This study aimed to estimate the total causal effect of a set of behaviours on the risk of COVID-19 infection. Methods A population-based case-cohort study was conducted in a district of Istanbul, Türkiye. Cases were recruited from...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye implemented a distinctive contact tracing approach involving in-personhome visits by medical professionals to individuals who tested positive for the virus. This study examines theexperiences of health professionals involved in contact tracing, exploring how they reappropriated their pro-fessional subjectivity...
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Introduction: As useful tools for clinical decision-making, diagnostic tests require careful interpretation in order to prevent underdiagnosis, overdiagnosis or misdiagnosis. The aim of this study was to explore primary care practitioners’ understanding and interpretation of the probability of disease before and after test results for six common cl...
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BACKGROUND: In 2018 the WHO launched the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer to address global inequality in childhood cancer survival. Cancer staging is important for treatment planning and discussion with patients and to facilitate monitoring of cancer outcomes at population level. Population based cancer registries (PBCRs) are key partners in...
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INTRODUCTION: Cancer registries play a crucial role in capturing and analysing cancer occurrence and outcomes in the population. However, many registries worldwide do not routinely collect data on comorbidities, which are known to influence cancer treatment and prognosis. Sharing many risk factors, cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are leadin...
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Syndemic Theory is a relatively new theory developed first within the field of medical anthropology and later adopted by social epidemiology and public health. The term “syndemic” stands for “synergistic epidemics” where two or more health (related) problems (1) co-occur and (2) synergistically interact with each other (3) within a specific socioen...
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Objective: The infant mortality rate is one of the most important indicators providing information on maternal and infant health. It can be affected by changes of social and environmental factors. The aim of this study is to evaluate infant mortality in 2019 and 2020 years at the local level, considering the beginning of the pandemic period. Method...
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COVID-19 pandemi süreci sağlık alanında dijital dönüşümü hızlandırmıştır. Dünya Sağlık Örgütü dijital sağlığın, sağlık hizmetlerine erişimdeki eşitsizliklere potansiyel bir yanıt olduğunu ileri sürmektedir. Dolayısıyla dijitalleşme pandemi gibi ciddi bir halk sağlığı sorununda etkili bir yanıt aracı olarak görülmüş Türkiye’de de benzer bir politika...
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Background Syndemics (synergistic epidemics) have traditionally been studied using a mixed methods approach in which qualitative analysis precedes quantitative analysis. Typically, scholars first develop hypotheses about interactions between two or more health problems and the social conditions in which they exist via qualitative fieldwork. Subsequ...
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This paper explores the question of whether the practitioners of both modern and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Turkey merge or diverge their different knowledge, skills, dispositions, and practices pertaining to these supposedly two separate domains. Through a Bourdiuesian concept of habitus, it explores if there might be multiple...
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This presentation is based on a research project completed in Istanbul, Turkey, about the experience of the contact tracing teams mobilized by the Ministry of Health since early March 2020. It investigates the ways in which the state organized contact-tracing teams, how contact tracing was carried out, and the kind(s) of experiences medical doctors...
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Introduction. Cancer stage is a measure of cancer progression at diagnosis. It is an important indicator for clinical decision making and facilitates local and international monitoring of cancer outcomes at population level. Population-based cancer registries (PBCRs) are key partners in assigning stage at diagnosis while adhering to internationally...
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Objective This study aims to compare the level of burnout syndrome in medical residents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify potential risk factors. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on medical residents from three different university hospitals in Turkey in March 2021, one year after the pandemic hit Turkey. Burnout...
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COVID-19 salgını dolayısıyla uzaktan eğitim modeline geçen bazı üniversitelerde eğitim ve/veya sınavlar önlemler alınarak yeniden yüz yüze yapılmaya başlanmıştır. Bu olay sunumunda, sınavları yüz yüze yapmaya başlayan bir tıp fakültesinde bir aylık süre zarfında tespit edilen bir vaka kümesi incelenmiştir. 20.10.2020-19.11.2020 tarihleri arasında o...
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Giriş: COVID-19 pandemisi süresince farklı alanlarda pek çok bilimsel araştırma yürütülmesine rağmen COVID-19 pandemisinin yönetilebilmesi ve salgın hastalıkla mücadele kapsamında çok temel bir rol oynayan filyasyon ekipleri hakkında yeterli ve derinlikli az sayıda araştırma yürütülmüştür. Bununla birlikte, filyasyon ekiplerinin deneyimlerinin, bu...
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Evreleme kanser sürveyansı, önlemesi, tedavisi ve prognozunda kritik öneme sahiptir. Evrenin hesaplanmasındaki zorluk ve tutarsızlıklar genellikle eksik ve karşılaştırılamaz kanser verilerine sebep olmaktadır. Bu sorunun hizmet sunumundan politika yapma süreçlerine kadar olumsuz etkileri vardır. Türkiye’de 2020 yılında 233.834 yeni kanser vakası te...
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Filyasyon (temaslı takibi), salgın sırasında pozitif vakaların belirlenerek izole edilmesidir. Aşının olmadığı veya yetersiz kaldığı ve tam karantinanın uygulanamadığı durumlarda salgını kontrol altına alabilmek üzere kullanılabilecek en uygun halk sağlığı müdahaleleri etkili temaslı takibi ve izolasyon ile kapsamlı test uygulamalarıdır. Filyasyon,...
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Objective: Residency has become a vulnerable period for burnout among physicians because many common and specific stress factors in healthcare. Our study aims to evaluate the burnout level among medical residents in three tertiary care hospitals and to identify the relationship between socio-demographic and occupational factors with the burnout lev...
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Objective This study aims to compare the level of burnout syndrome in medical residents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify potential risk factors. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on medical residents from three different university hospitals in Turkey in March 2021, one year after the pandemic hit Turkey. Burnout...
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Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı medikal turizm alanında stratejik planlama için Türkiye’nin güçlü ve zayıf yönlerini, fırsatları ve tehditlerini (GZFT) tespit etmektir. Yöntem: Nitel araştırma tasarımındaki bu araştırmada İstanbul, Ankara ve Antalya başta olmak üzere Türkiye’nin çeşitli illerinde medikal turizm alanındaki faaliyetleriyle öne çıkan 10 k...
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Medikal turizm, küreselleşme sonucu artan insan hareketliliği, bilişim teknolojilerinin yaygın kullanımı gibi nedenlerle hızla gelişen bir sağlık sektörüdür. Toplumların yaşlanması, sağlık hizmeti maliyetlerinin hızla artması, hizmet almak isteyenler için söz konusu olan uzun bekleme süreleri gibi nedenlerle önemi artan medikal turizm konusunda Tür...
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Sağlığın geliştirilmesi projelerinin başarılı olması için etkili ve uyumlu proje takımlarının kurulması kritiktir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, kamu idarelerinde sağlığın geliştirilmesine yönelik uluslararası projeler için takım kurma sürecine ilişkin bir yöntem önermek; bir örnek üzerinden proje takımına dahil olmak isteyen çalışanların tanımlayıcı özelli...
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Objective: Approximately 800,000 suicides occur in a year worldwide, yet this topic is very much neglected. The aim of this study is to compare the statistics of suicide in Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US) from 2015 to 2018. Methods: The data on suicide were obtained from each country’s national databases in form of suici...
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Background and objective: Social media addiction, which has become an important problem today, has attracted the attention of many researchers and has been investigated especially in different student groups. The purpose of this research is to determine the level of social media addiction among students studying at the medical faculty of a foundati...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi GÜZ 2021 tarihli, 60. sayıda sayfa 14-17’de yayımlanmıştır. http://sdplatform.com/Dergi/1480/Cevre-sorunlari-saglik-acisindan-ne-kadar-onemli.aspx
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Background and Objective: Breast cancer is the most common and deadly cancer for women and because of that a free screening program is ongoing in Turkey. However, health education activities on cancer screenings were disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of remote health education on the attendance...
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Çeşitli ülkelerde yapılan araştırmalarda, asistan hekimlerin %27-75'inin tükenmişlik sendromu yaşadığını gösterilmiştir. Türkiye'de güncel istatisitklere göre 26,181 tıpta uzmanlık öğrencisi bulunmakta ve bu sayı her sene artmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı tükenmişlik sendromu ile ilgili mevcut literatürde Türkiye'deki asistan hekimlerinin ne kadar t...
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Background and Objective: Social media has become an important focus in health information seeking behavior of people. The use of social media by physicians for a variety of professional purposes has been defined in the literature. The aim of this study is to analyze digital communication activities of physicians practicing traditional and compleme...
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Community pharmacists have been on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mental health and anxiety levels of many other health workers are studied in this period, literature is very limited to understand the experience of pharmacists. This study aims to define the anxiety level of community pharmacists in Istanbul during the COV...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Haziran, Temmuz, Ağustos 2021 tarihli 59. sayıda sayfa 40-41’de yayımlanmıştır.
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Background: Vaccine hesitation, which is defined as one of the most important global health threats by World Health Organization, maintains its universal importance during the COVID-19 period. Due to the increasing appearance of anti-vaccine arguments on social media, Twitter is a useful resource in detecting these contents. In this study, we aimed...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Mart, Nisan, Mayıs 2021 tarihli 58. sayıda sayfa 92-95’de yayımlanmıştır.
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Aim: Studies around the world show that 27-75% of medical residents suffer from burnout syndrome. There are 26,181 residents in Turkey and counting. This study aims to review how much Turkish medical residents are represented in the existing literature on burnout syndrome and uncover a possible knowledge gap. Methods: In this rapid review, the PubM...
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Turkey is the country that hosts most migrants worldwide. Although migrants are a risk group for alcohol and substance addiction (ASA), literature is limited. This study aims to explore and identify the present state and influencing factors of ASA among Syrian migrants in Turkey by integrating perspectives of addicts, their relatives , and local an...
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GİRİŞ: 2019 yılı sonunda Çin’de başlayan COVID-19 salgınının dünyaya yayılması sonucunda her sektörde salgını önleyici tedbirler alınmaya başlanmış, üniversitelerde de uzaktan eğitime geçilmiştir. Pandeminin devam etmesine rağmen uzaktan eğitimden gereken verimin alınamaması ve uzaktan sınavlarda ölçme ve değerlendirmenin yeterince adil olmaması ih...
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Background While some of the health advice is arousing interest in large audiences, others are neglected. It is known that the presentation of health contents affects their adoption. However, there are not enough studies on popular health books as a medium. The aim of the study is to find out how popular health books are presented to arouse interes...
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Objective: The objective of our study is to evaluate the individual health literacy level among patients who received health services from different types of hospitals in Istanbul. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among inpatients of a public, private and university hospital in Istanbul. Data were collected by the app...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Aralık, Ocak, Şubat 2020 tarihli 53. sayıda sayfa 92-95’de yayımlanmıştır.
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Heat waves are one of the most common direct impacts of anthropogenic climate change and excess mortality their most apparent impact. While Turkey has experienced an increase in heat wave episodes between 1971 and 2016, no epidemiological studies have examined their potential impacts on public health so far. In this study excess mortality in Istanb...
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The Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge resulted in many insights related to the movement patterns of the Syrian refugees within Turkey. In this chapter, we summarize some of the important findings, and suggest policy recommendations for the main areas of the challenge. These recommendations are sometimes broad suggestions, as the policy intervention...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Aralık-Ocak-Şubat 2019 tarihli 49. sayıda, sayfa 94-97’de yayımlanmıştır. http://www.sdplatform.com/Dergi/1169/Okul-sagligi-ve-saglikli-beslenme.aspx
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Bu araştırmada, İstanbul’da halkın alkol ve madde bağımlılığı konusunda beklentilerinin ana hatlarının ortaya konulması amaçlanmıştır.
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Giriş ve Amaç: Acil durumlar, ani olarak ortaya çıkan, kişinin hayatını tehlikeye sokan veya kısa sürede çözülemeyen normal dışı sağlık olaylarının tedavilerinin yapıldığı hizmetleri içermektedir. Ancak, acil servislere yapılan başvurular değerlendirildiğinde, başvuruların çoğunun acil durum niteliğinde olmadığı, özellikle çocukluk çağında sık görü...
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GIRIŞ ve AMAÇ: Literatürde şikayetlerin ve diğer geri bildirimlerin, yönetimdeki aksaklıkların daha iyi görülebilmesi için bir fırsat oldukları ifade edilmektedir. Geri bildirimler, halkın ve sağlık çalışanlarının sorun, ihtiyaç ve beklentilerinin anlaşılabilmesini; sağlık sistemindeki aksaklıkların tespit edilebilmesini ve kalite iyileştirme çalış...
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AMAÇ: Şikayet, ihbar, istek ve öneri gibi geri bildirimler çoğunlukla tekil olarak değerlendirilmekte ve sağlık hizmeti alanın memnuniyetinin temini ile sorunlarının çözülmesi için kullanılmaktadır. Toplu olarak ele alındıklarında ise, iyi bir analizle, sağlık hizmetlerinin kalitesinin iyileştirilmesi ve halk sağlığının korunmasına hizmet edecek ön...
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Hasta şikayetlerini, sağlık kurumlarındaki eksiklik ve aksaklıklar hakkında kişilerin bireysel ve yerinde tespitleri olarak değerlendirmek, hasta odaklı sağlık yönetiminin ana unsurlarından biridir. Şikayetlerin, Sağlıkta Kalite Standartları (SKS) ile bağlantılı bir şekilde değerlendirmesi kurumların kalite iyileştirme süreçlerine katkı sunabilir....
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Bugüne kadar dünyada gen tedavisi alanında tamamlanmış ve devam etmekte olan 2400’ün üzerinde klinik araştırma vardır. Bu çalışmada ise 2016 yılında başlayan ve hala devam etmekte olan 17 farklı ülkeden 55 klinik araştırma incelenmiştir. Elde edilen veriler coğrafik dağılım, araştırmanın uygulandığı hastalık grubu, bulunduğu faz, araştırmada kullan...
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Mart-Nisan-Mayıs 2016 tarihli 38.sayıda, sayfa 40-45'te yayımlanmıştır. http://www.sdplatform.com/Dergi/935/Sagligin-yesil-belirleyicileri-Parklar.aspx
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SD (Sağlık Düşüncesi ve Tıp Kültürü) Dergisi, Aralık-Ocak-Şubat 2015-2016 tarihli 37. sayıda, sayfa 72-77'de yayımlanmıştır. http://www.sdplatform.com/Dergi/921/Saglikta-kalitenin-eksik-basamagi.aspx

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