Özet:

The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, which occurred in the last weeks of 2019 in China’s city of Wuhan and becomes a global epidemic in a short time, has reached the highest daily number of 1 million 800 thousand deaths by the end of 2020, approaching a total of 81 million confirmed cases and with 886 thousand new cases on December 5, 2020. The pandemic has led to radical changes in the basic ways of life of people, such as cleaning, food, housing, education, shopping, and, on the other hand, unemployment, economic stagnation and the sustainability of health systems have begun to become priority. The mutual cooperation of national and international organizations is of great importance to prevent this rapid change from becoming an international crisis. In his speech on March 11, the Secretary-General of the OECD declared the pandemic as a crisis not just a public health crisis, but a crisis to touch every sector. The DSO’s advisory decisions on the creation of national health policies in the pandemic process are attracting attention. The aim of the study is to explore what communication strategies are monitored by the DSO during the pandemic process and how these forms of communication have an impact on national health policies. In this scope, the study preferred the World Health Organization (WHO) primary data sources-based analysis, literary scan and theoretical study method. In the framework of the studies, the pandemic appears to be a serious pressure on the sustainability of national health policies,. The communication strategies followed by the DSO are interpreted in the framework of the theory of information diffusion and the concepts of risk communication. It is clear that the DSO plays a catalytic role in the management of the epidemic on a global scale, facilitating the international sharing of acquired scientific information, making the findings obtained a report and is effective in the strengthening of good practices and national state health systems.

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