Songül Vaizoğlu

Songül Vaizoğlu
Near East University · Department of Public Health

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Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the risk factors of childhood diarrhoea in Turkey throughout Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 1998 and 2008 data. Methods: This study is a further analysis of the database of children under 5 years of age from the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. Binomial logistic regression and Ch...
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Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı yüksek gerilim hattı yakınında bulunan evlerde elektromanyetik alan düzeylerinin ve bu evlerde yaşayanlarda bazı semptomların varlığının belirlenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu amaçla bu tanımlayıcı çalışmada Ankara’da, yakınında yüksek gerilim hattı bulunan 74 evde ve evin bulunduğu binanın çevresinde elektromanyetik alan öl...
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This descriptive study was conducted on patients and their relatives who presented to Kyrenia University Dr. Suat Günsel Hospital, Near East University Hospital, and the Primary Health Care Clinic. It aims to determine their sociodemographic characteristics, the frequency of caffeine consumption, the relationship between some sociodemographic chara...
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Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı, Lefkoşa’daki bir tıp fakültesinin birinci sınıf öğrencilerinde acil kontrasepsiyon konusundaki bilgi ve tutumlarını değerlendirmek olarak belirlenmiştir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu kesitsel araştırmanın verileri Şubat 2016’da gözlem altında anket uygulanarak toplanmıştır. Tıp Fakültesi’nin toplam 467 birinci sınıf öğrencisinde...
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Objectives: Housing is an important determinant of health, and substandard housing is a major public health issue. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of home accidents, and to evaluate the associations between housing conditions and home accidents in a health centre region in Ankara. Methods: In this cross-sectional research, we...
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Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı, Lefkoşa’nın bir bölgesindeki 65 yaş ve üzeri bireylerin sosyal yaşama katılım düzeyini belirlemek olarak tanımlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı nitelikte olan araştırmanın evrenini, Lefkoşa ilçesi Göçmenköy bölgesinde yaşayan ve 2011 nüfus sayımına göre belirlenen 65 yaş ve üstü 515 birey oluşturmaktadır. Nüfusun...
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Status of non-communicable diseases and some other major health problems and associated risk factors among patients aged 65 years and over presenting to a family health care center in Kyrenia Introduction: The objective of this study was to determine the status of non-communicable (chronic) diseases and some other major health problems and associat...
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Amaç: Bu çalışma Yalova İli Merkez İlçesi için afet öncesi süreçte çevre yönetimi planının oluşturulmasını amaçlamaktadır. Ayrıca çalışma, afete hazırlık için mevcut durumun eksikliklerinin belirlenmesini amaçlamaktadır.Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırmacılar tarafından literatür taraması sonrası bir kontrol listesi oluşturulmuştur. Kontrol listesi yedi ba...
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In this study, it is aimed to determine environmental awareness of secondary and high school students in Bodrum, Turkey. This cross-sectional designed study was conducted on 381 students from secondary school and 335 high school students between 5th and 12th grades in Bodrum. In order to assess the environmental consciousness level, a questionnaire...
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Thermal springs are important for community health since they are public places and being widespreadly used. Free-living amoeba are common in nature. Naegleria and Acanthamoeba species in particular are found in thermal springs and may cause serious health problems. At the first stage of the study, it is aimed to research the presence of Naegleria...
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Aluminium is one of the most abundant metal in earth crust and has in many product of human life. Drugs, some of goods, cosmetics, foods, food stroage containers and drinking water are sources of aluminium's exposures. Water, food and drugs are the main sources for oral exposure. Knowledge of health effects of aluminium in drinking water is limited...
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The evaluation of human beings’ interactions with their environment, interpretation and implementation of community preventive practices in the form of necessity increases the responsibility for public health professionals nowadays, when the human health effects of environmental impressions are increasing each day. By this review, the concepts of e...
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Aim: To evaluate the health-related quality of life of women living in Van city center by SF-36 and its association with the women's characteristics. Materials and methods: The women (n = 1527) answered a questionnaire through a face-to-face interview, and some measurements were made. The variations of physical component score (PCS) and mental comp...
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Türkiye Açısından Dünyada İklim Değişikliği, Gözlenen ve Öngörülen İklim Değişiklikleri, İklim Değişikliğinin Sağlık Etkileri, İklim Değişikliği Antlaşmaları, İklim Etiği, vb.
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Warfarin is one of the commonly used oral anticoagulant. The aim of our study is to evaluate the predisposing preventable factors among patients with bleeding due to warfarin usage. This study was performed on 114 cases who were admitted to emergency service for bleeding and whose ages range between 27 and 89 years. The mean time between the onset...
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Power frequency magnetic fields have unfavourable impacts on human health, especially on children who are growing up. The aim of the present study was to carry out an electromagnetic field measurement and evaluate the impact of transformers, high voltage powerlines, municipal electric distribution lines. A cross-sectional study was conducted in whi...
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Introduction: Our aim was to determine some risk factors for colorectal cancer, evaluate the knowledge about colorectal cancer among patients aged 50 years and over and their compliance with fecal occult blood test. Materials and Method: The study was conducted among 103 patients aged 50 years and over. Data were collected by a questionnaire form i...
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Purpose The aim of the study was to establish the prevalence and nature of potential adverse drug combinations of warfarin in a large post-mortem toxicology database. The concomitant use of warfarin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was of interest as these drugs have been associated with internal bleeding both in clinical and post...
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Indoor environments are where people spend 80—90% of their time. They are at their riskiest in terms of air pollution when smoking is not prohibited and various combustion and/or cooking applications are performed. If such environments are where people live or work, or are recreation facilities open to everybody, experience has shown that pollution...
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Introduction: In this study, it was aimed to determine life quality of life and the related factors of 65 years of age and older individuals in the catchment area of a Primary Health Care Unit (PHCU) in Ankara, Turkey. Materials and Method: PHCU records were used to determine the participants. There were 347 registered people at this age group and...
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Abstract Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the personal hygienic behaviours of ninth and tenth grade students in a health center district of Ankara. Material and Method: The study is a crosssectional epidemiological study. The study population was 236 students determined by random sampling from a universe of 1253 students. 94.3%...
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The research was conducted to determine the existing situation of a primary school in Altındağ, whether it is appropriate for the standards defined by the Institute of Turkish Standards, and the electromagnetic field levels in the school area and to measure the lighting levels in the classrooms. This descriptive survey’s data was collected in April...
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The research was conducted to evaluate the microbiological analysis of samples taken from the toilet faucets, some of the lavatory faucets, door handles and the telephone receiver, chemical and microbiological analysis of water samples in a primary school in Ankara. The research is a descriptive situation determining study. Data were collected in A...
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One of the airborne pollutants in wood products industry is formaldehyde, which may pose some health effects. Therefore this study is conducted to determine formaldehyde levels in 100 furniture-manufacturing workshops in Ankara and also to determine the symptoms, which may be related with formaldehyde exposure among the workers. Indoor formaldehyde...
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This study is a descriptive research performed in order to measure formaldehyde levels in 46 random selected coffee shops in from central districts of Ankara. Formaldemeter 400 was used for formaldehyde measures. Simultaneous measures were applied in coffee shops. Mean of formaldehyde levels was 0,20 ppm. There was artificial ventilation in all of...
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Objective: To determine the outpatients? satisfaction at two health center of a university. Materials and methods: In this descriptive study, 40 % of the patients participated out of 980 patients who applied to the health centers within a week. Results: The majority of the participants were between 20-24 ages. The patients who applied for examinati...
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Introduction: The physical activities have changed and decreased as the technological improvements increase. Physical inactivity is one of the most important public health problems in the last several decades. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study is conducted in the 1. grade students of Kaya Bayazıtoğlu High School by using “Physical A...
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The following research was performed in 1999 in order to determine public health problems and the priority about public education of the municipalities. Questionnaire forms were sent to a total of 3215 municipalities. The participitation ratio were 29% (931 municipalities). Municipalities declined their priorities about public health problems in th...
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Introduction: Noise, which has negative effects on human-beings and community is one of the most important indoor pollutants. The aim of this study is to determine the sources and perception of residential noise, the ideas about the solutions to prevent residential noise. Material-method: This cross-sectional study is conducted in Eryaman residenti...
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This cross-sectional study was carried out in October, 2001, with the aim of measuring formaldehyde levels in 399 homes representative of those in the central districts of Ankara province. Measurements were carried out with a Formaldemeter 400 in the living rooms and kitchens of these homes. The average formaldehyde levels in living rooms and kitch...
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This descriptive study was designed to investigate whether there was a difference in the levels of ionising radiation in rooms where smoking was permitted and rooms where it was not permitted. The study was conducted in residential student rooms of a school of medicine. A total of 60h of measurement was conducted, measuring for 1 h in each room. Me...
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The aim of the present study was to determine smoking prevalence among noncommissioned officers and privates and the factors affecting it. This study was carried out in a division of 20,000 soldiers. One of every 10 names on the roster was chosen at random. Responses were received from 1,822 subjects (91.1%), all male, in the final month of their 1...
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The purpose of the present study was to measure carbon monoxide (CO) levels during the operation of hot water boilers that use liquefied petroleum gas or natural gas, which are widely used in Turkey. In addition, it was intended to determine how much owners of these boil ers knew about their use and about CO poisoning. CO levels were measured in th...
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The aim of the present study was to determine where injuries due to violence mostly occur and to find differences (if present) among where the assaults places in 334 patients who sustained injuries due to reasons other than accidents, randomly selected from the medical records and files of those referred to the Department of Traumatology of the Cou...
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The level of radon in domestic dwellings in Ankara, Tur key, was studied using CR-39 passive alpha track detec tors. During the period 1996-1997 indoor radon concen trations were measured in approximately 200 houses during a 6 months' winter period. Detectors were placed in two separate rooms of which one was a living room and the other was the mai...
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The aim of the study was to determine the the level of environmental risk perception and its some determinants of last grade students in Hacettepe University Medical Faculty within 2005-2006 education period. The universe of this cross-sectional study were last grade students of Hacettepe University Medical Faculty within 2005-2006 education period...
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ZET Günümüzde insanlar zamanlarının büyük çoğunluğunu kapalı ortamlarda geçirmektedir. Kapalı ortam kirliliği halk sağlığı açısından giderek daha fazla önem kazanmaktadır. Bu ortamlarda formaldehit kaynaklarından bazıları mobilya, sunta ve suntadan yapılmış malzemeler (döşeme altlarında, raf, dolap ve mobilya), halı, ısıtma-soğutma sistemleri ve si...

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