Abstract:

Non-pharmaceutical public health measures are the only way to respond to the epidemic as there are no specific drugs or vaccines to treat or prevent COVID-19. Effective surveillance is critical to control the spread of the disease and to ensure continuous implementation of control measures. Among the public health measures, especially hand and respiratory hygiene, implementation of social distance, isolation, quarantine; It is important for the slow transmission of respiratory diseases and health institutions to deal with these diseases better. Social distance is especially useful in cases where community spread occurs, but the links between cases are uncertain. It has been shown that the transmission decreases as the distance gets longer, and the use of masks is protective for both healthcare workers and people who are exposed to factors in society. It is an indication that the public health measures taken due to the lack of community immunity are required to be protected from a second wave in studies. The prolongation of the process may also lead to decreased compliance and compliance fatigue in individuals. With the control of the outbreak, policymakers adopt controlled social life with public health measures, without exceeding their health system capacity. As a result; The continuity of public health measures, which is the most important step for COVID-19 outbreak control, should be ensured by considering the sociocultural structure of the society. Measures need to be viable, provide economic infrastructure for individual adaptation, and significantly increase the surveillance capacity of each country from the outbreak.

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