Nesrin Cilingiroglu

Hacettepe University · Department of Public Health

Background International Union of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons’ survey-2017 showed Turkey is the second country among others in terms of numbers of cosmetic medical interventions (CMI) in Europe and ranks ninth worldwide. Therefore future physicians’ (FT) perceptions are important on this topic as potential implementer and service user. Objective Ob...

Sağlık sistemlerinde ihtiyaç tespiti, hizmet planlanması ve finansmanı, hizmetin etkisinin değerlendirilmesi, beklenen yaşam süresinin hesaplanabilmesi, yerleşim yerleri, bölgeler ve ülkeler arası karşılaştırmalar için ölümlerle ilgili bilgiye gereksinim vardır. Tanımlayıcı tipteki bu çalışmada, HÜTF Erişkin Hastanesi’nde 2004 yılındaki 674 ölüm va...

Background: Genetically modified organisms (GMO) are a subject of ongoing scientific, political and social discussions in all over the world. In Turkey, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock is responsible for every aspects of products that contain GMO. It is aimed to evaluate opinions and attitudes of agricultural-engineers (AE) and veterin...

Background Health-care-associated infections/hospital-acquired-infection-HAI affects patients in a hospital or other health-care facility, and is not present or incubating at the time of admission. These infections are commonly transmitted when health care providers become complacent and do not practice correct hygiene regularly. Moreover, some med...

Background Throughout Turkey, violence that women have been subjected to is still widespread. Murder of women or femicide involve intentional-murder-of-women because they are women and increasing worldwide as it is in Turkey. In spite of juristic-regulations and precautions made to prevent violence against women, femicide in Turkey has not stopped-...

Background Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons represent an underserved-population susceptible to health-care inequalities. Homosexuality is now accepted as a normal variant of human-sexuality, but homophobia among health-care professionals is not well documented. Establishment of trustful doctor–patient relationships i...

Background In Turkey it has seen dramatic increases in the use of emergency services (ES): ES admissions constituted one-third of overall admissions in 2012. In spite of the health system reform and universal health coverage, ESs are still utilized as first-contact health care settings indicating inequalities in service provision. In this study i...

The use of endocrine therapy (ET) in postmenopausal breast cancer patients may affect their cognitive status. This study aims to assess the effects of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors (Als) on quality of life (QoL) and cognitive functions in breast cancer patients. The study included 101 patients receiving tamoxifen, 97 patients receiving Als, an...

Financial protection should be the principal objective of any health system. Commonly used indicators for financial protection are out-of-pocket (OOP) payments as a share of total health expenditure and the amount of households driven into poverty by catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs). In the last decade, OOP health payments consisted of appro...

Aim: Knowledge of chronic pain and its relationship to depression among primary health care patients in Turkey is inadequate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of chronic pain and its relationship to depression. Materials and methods: In this descriptive study, data was collected with a questionnaire based on sociodemographic and...

AimInformation on medical students knowledge about violence against women (VAW) is inadequate in Turkey although VAW is quite common (39.5%). This study aimed to investigate experiences, professional knowledge and the opinions of third phase (TPS) and last phase (LPS) students of medical faculties concerning VAW.Method In this study, a questionnair...

AimPhysicians may face occupational accident risk due to sleep problems. The aim of study was the evaluation of association of sleepiness and sleep quality with occupational accidents.Method In this descriptive study, data was collected among 312 (53.7%) residents in a medical faculty hospital through a questionnaire to investigate sociodemographic...

The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, opinions and behaviors of the adults, regarding Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF). This descriptive study data was collected from 405 adults who attended two health centers in Ankara city. The mean age of the adults was 38.2±14.5 years, 73.8% were female, and 63.0% had an educational level...

This survey aimed to investigate the effect of medical education on the attitudes of students towards individuals with mental health problems. The first phase of the survey was conducted in 2002 with first-year medical students (n=168) and the second phase was carried out in 2007 (n=202) with sixth-year medical students. The questionnaire we used c...

This study aims to identify the level of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in Turkey and, to reveal household factors predicting this outcome. CHE is calculated from a national representative data derived from TurkStat, Household Budget Survey, Consumption Expenditures, 2006. The methods introduced by Ke Xu and colleagues are employed for calcu...

The ageing of the world's population is an indicator of improving global health. The world's elderly population-people 60-years of age and older-is 650-million. By 2050, the "greying" population is forecast to reach 2-billion. This change will affect the age-sex-structure and the share of age-groups that require far-reaching economic and social adj...

RATIONALE: Turkey have fiscal limitations on how to manage and provide for the needs and demands of the population-there is high and increasing out-of-pocket and informal (under-the-table) payments, inefficiencies in the pooling of funds and the provision of care, and insufficient financial incentives to reach overall health care related goals such...

This cross-sectional study was constructed among 609 taxi drivers of 43 taxi stations in southern and eastern part of Ankara in 2006. The data of the study was collected via questionnaire contains items on sociodemographic characeristics, working conditions, sleep quality, and accidents in which taxi drivers involved in preceding month. The sleep q...

Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. In recent years a consistent increase in the prevalence, and concomitantly, in the social and economic impact of the disease, has been reported. In order to provide data for the cost of pediatric asthma and its determinants in Turkish children, a study was performed in a sing...

In health care today, scientific and technological frontiers are expanding at unprecedented rates, even as economic and financial pressures shrink profit margins, intensify competition, and constrain the funds available for investment. Therefore, the world today has more economic, and social opportunities for people than 10 or 100 years since globa...

The basic aim of the activities concerning health is to implement the initiatives for people to attain the best health status and sustain it. That's why these initiatives have to be chosen from the ones that consume minimum resource and affect life quality and duration in most beneficial way. Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic disorders. A...

PIP: "The 1980s witnessed the emergence of an applied subdiscipline within demography that is coming to be termed Health Demography. Health Demography can be defined as the application of concepts, contents, methods and techniques of demography to the study of health status, health behaviour and health care. It should be noted that unlike the clini...

PIP: There are limited economic analyses of health services in Turkey. In order to attain more effective health care services, it is necessary to determine their costs, benefits and merits. Progress towards a healthier and more productive society will be expedited by reducing inequalities through such efforts. Economic analysis is an important deci...

The results of a survey concerning coitus interruptus in Turkey are presented. The survey concerned approximately 1,000 women aged 15-19 living in four villages and two urban areas in the Etimesgut region, located about 25 kilometers from Ankara. The results indicate a high level of use of coitus interruptus. The authors discuss strategies for emph...