Abstract:

The Covid-19 disease, first detected in China in 2019, spread rapidly and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Turkey in this process has begun to take measures related to the pandemic in a very early period and before the World Health Organization’s pandemic announcement, on 10 January 2020 a operation center was established within the Ministry of Health in order to fight the Covid-19 disease and in the same date a Scientific Council was established consisting of successful scientists working in different fields in different universities of Turkey. In Turkey, as in the world, the period of social isolation has begun in all areas of life. On May 6, 2020 after the health minister Fahrettin Koca announced that the first period of pandemic was completed, on June 1, 2020 the normalization process began in our country in the predefined calendar framework. In this study, the evaluation processes and related socio-demographic characteristics of patients applying to the University of Nine September pandemic clinic between 18.03.2020-15.11.2020 were evaluated in terms of the process of normalization according to diagnostic criteria. However, the Covid-19 measures have included a comparative assessment of the normalization process following the mass isolation.

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Abstract:

Covid-19 disease, first detected in China in 2019, spread rapidly in a short time and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Turkey has begun to take quite an early stage of the pandemic-related measures in this process. Before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, an operations center has been established within the Ministry of Health to combat Covid-19 on 10 January 2020. And at the same time, working in different areas at different universities in Turkey has created a Science Committee composed of successful scientists. Then, in Turkey as well as all over the world in all areas of life, social isolation period has begun. After the Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced on May 6, 2020 that the first period regarding the pandemic was completed, the normalization process started in our country on June 1, 2020 within the pre-determined schedule. In this study, the evaluation processes of the patients who applied to the Dokuz Eylül University pandemic outpatient clinic between 18.03.2020-15.11.2020, depending on the diagnostic criteria, and the related socio-demographic characteristics were examined in terms of the normalization process. In addition, social and economic comparative evaluation of the normalization process that followed the collective isolation under Covid-19 measures was included.