Evaluation of COVID-19 pandemic management in Türkiye.
Front Public Health
; 11: 1142471, 2023.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2297560
ABSTRACT
Three years since the first cases were identified and 2 years since an effective vaccine was developed, COVID-19 continues to claim lives and impact people's health and wellbeing, both socially and economically. While the world has been waiting for its leaders to come together to form a collective response to end the pandemic, we still have not seen a multisectoral response, nor any whole-of-society approach. Like many other countries around the globe, Türkiye was caught unprepared by the pandemic. This was exacerbated by the unsuccessful management of the pandemic by the authorities. The reasoning and/or scientific explanations for enforcing or lifting public health measures have never shared with the public. Throughout the pandemic, no epidemiological details have been released on cases and deaths, other than the numbers of these two measures. Civil society organizations, professional associations, and the public in general have been kept out from policy formulation and decision making. As a result, community engagement has never been properly put into practice. In this paper, we analyzed Türkiye's pandemic management response through the continuum of the response cycle to emergencies prevention, preparedness, readiness, response, and recovery.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Public Health
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
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Fpubh.2023.1142471
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