Özet:

Health communication, focused on proper information on health-related issues and the issues of attitude and behavior changes, has emerged in recent years as a growing concept of importance. Health communication studies, which play an important role in providing individuals with proper health behavior, gain importance especially in epidemic periods. In the coronavirus epidemic that affects the whole world, the health communications work under the leadership of the Ministry of Health in our country and the transmission of information about the disease to the broad public masses have been provided. The Ministry, which receives the support of the media, is sending the messages it prepares to the broad public by means of public communication, and the public is informed through the specialists who are invited to television programs on what measures can be taken in the course of the disease and the point of protection from the disease. The official website of the Ministry contains announcements about the measures to be taken towards the public and health staff, while the steps to be followed in almost every field of social life are detailed. In order to succeed in the management of the epidemic in the society, the institutions and organizations should take measures in detail, the site where necessary prepared posters, or necessary written documents and successful studies are carried out in terms of health communication. The study focused on the concept of health communication, focused on the communication strategies followed by the Ministry of Health in the fight against coronavirus epidemic.

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