Papers by Ass. Prof. Dr. Omer Tontus
Social Science Research Network, Oct 17, 2020
Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Tourism, 2018
Why is the mortality rate higher in developed countries? It is clear that the Coronavirus pandemi... more Why is the mortality rate higher in developed countries? It is clear that the Coronavirus pandemic will remain on the world agenda for a few more months. When we look at the information shared by different institutions, organizations or experts, it can be seen that we have not yet reached satisfactory information about the source of infection, its spread and treatment process. However, it is accepted that all kinds of contact reduction and isolation are effective in terms of protection. We need to acknowledge that with Covid19 pandemics, we have reached some information that will provide clues about the health system of countries. When we look at the data published regularly, we often see that the total number of cases, the number of exitus, the number of new cases and the number of people recovering are shared with the public. I thought it was appropriate to share very simple information that I obtained from the shared data. Considering the mortality rates of 20 countries that have reported more than 500 cases, we see that Italy, Iran, Spain, China and England are in the top 5. It is seen that the average of 4.20% death/case ratio, which is the average of 20 countries, has been exceeded in 3 countries (Italy, Iran and Spain).
COVID19 While the number of patients and deaths in the USA remains on the agenda and is often cri... more COVID19 While the number of patients and deaths in the USA remains on the agenda and is often criticized, comparison with horse data from other countries should be made carefully. It is not possible to say that Peru, Belgium and Spain were successful in the fight against Covid19. It is particularly important that Belgium's statistical data resulting in death in one out of every 1120 cases will require this country to review its treatment protocols. It is thought that interpretations of the failure of the US fight against Covid19 are not true, and the struggle of healthcare professionals has been unfairly criticized. When the figures obtained from our study are evaluated, it shows that the Trump administration, which has made serious efforts against the epidemic, is criticized in an exaggerated way due to the election atmosphere.
S. Korea, Japan and Italy seem to be very successful in treatment effectiveness compared to other... more S. Korea, Japan and Italy seem to be very successful in treatment effectiveness compared to other countries. Italy has 11.27% recovered case rates on the total number of cases. This rate is very low in countries such as the UK (2.48%), USA (1.14%), Austria (0.55%) and Switzerland (0.48%). Considering the date of the first case in all four countries have a similar timeline to Italy. The low rate of recovered cases is alarming for some developed countries.
GIRIŞ-AMAC: Saglik okuryazarligi, saglik ve saglik hizmeti kavramlari ile ilgili temel bilgilere ... more GIRIŞ-AMAC: Saglik okuryazarligi, saglik ve saglik hizmeti kavramlari ile ilgili temel bilgilere ulasma, anlama ve gerekleri yerine getirme yeterliligine sahip olabilme olarak tanimlanmaktadir. Saglik okuryazarliginin yeterli olmamasi durumu, kisi ozelinde saglik hizmetlerini etkili kullanimda sorunlara ve daha sagliksiz bir yasama yol acarken, toplumsal duzeyde dusuk verimlilik, artmis morbidite ve mortalite ile maliyet artisi ile sonuclanmaktadir. Calismanin amaci Avrupa Saglik Okuryazarligi Olcegi’ni (HLS-EU), Turkce’ye uyarlanarak guvenirlik ve gecerliligini degerlendirmektir. GEREC VE YONTEM: Metodolojik bir calismadir. Madde sayisinin 10 kati alinarak ornek buyuklugu hesaplanmistir. 15 yas ustu, en az ilkokul mezunu, Turkce konusabilen ve saglikla ilgili mesleklerden olmayanlar calismaya dahil edilmistir. HLS-EU, Avrupa Saglik Okuryazarligi Arastirma Konsorsiyumu tarafindan gelistirilmistir. Kavramsal cercevesi, saglikla ilgili uc boyut(tedavi, hastaliklardan korunma ve sagli...
Health promotion international, 2018
Health literacy is a public health priority which refers to individual's knowledge, motivatio... more Health literacy is a public health priority which refers to individual's knowledge, motivation and competence to access, understand, appraise and apply health information to prevent disease and promote health in daily life. This study aimed to adapt European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) into Turkish and to investigate its psychometric properties. The questionnaire was translated into Turkish by using both group translation and expert opinion methods. Forward translation-back translation method was used for language validity and the final Turkish version (HLS-TR) was formed. HLS-EU-Q47 and Health Awareness Scale (HAS) were administered to 505 respondents. The scale reliability was examined using Crohnbach's alpha coefficient and the construct validity was assessed by principal axis factoring procedure. The convergent validity was obtained by Pearson correlation coefficients between HLS-TR and HAS scores and discriminant validity was examined comparing the...
IEEE Access, 2020
This study focuses on modeling, prediction, and analysis of confirmed, recovered, and death cases... more This study focuses on modeling, prediction, and analysis of confirmed, recovered, and death cases of COVID-19 by using Fractional Calculus in comparison with other models for eight countries including China, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US. First, the dataset is modeled using our previously proposed approach Deep Assessment Methodology, next, one step prediction of the future is made using two methods: Deep Assessment Methodology and Long Short-Term Memory. Later, a Gaussian prediction model is proposed to predict the short-term (30 Days) future of the pandemic, and prediction performance is evaluated. The proposed Gaussian model is compared to a time-dependent susceptibleinfected-recovered (SIR) model. Lastly, an analysis of understanding the effect of history is made on memory vectors using wavelet-based denoising and correlation coefficients. Results prove that Deep Assessment Methodology successfully models the dataset with 0.6671%, 0.6957%, and 0.5756% average errors for confirmed, recovered, and death cases, respectively. We found that using the proposed Gaussian approach underestimates the trend of the pandemic and the fastest increase is observed in the US while the slowest is observed in China and Spain. Analysis of the past showed that, for all countries except Turkey, the current time instant is mainly dependent on the past two weeks where countries like Germany, Italy, and the UK have a shorter average incubation period when compared to the US and France. INDEX TERMS COVID-19, deep assessment methodology (DAM), fractional calculus, least squares, long short-term memory, modeling, prediction of pandemics, SIR model.
Journal of Tourism & Hospitality, 2018
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Methods: It is a descriptive study including 106 participants. In this research a valid and reliable four point Likert type scale with 70 items, developed by Demiral was used to give two-sided scores for expectations and perceptions in each side. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests including t- test and one way ANOVA.
Results: Of the participants 64.2% (68) were men and 43.4% (46) were professors. Among faculty members 9.4% (10) were employed in basic, 49.1% (52) in internal and 41.5% in surgical sciences. Of the participants 37.7% took place as in the management of the process of change, while 57.5% worked in any one of the educational committees. Faculty members' expectations were lower than their perceptions regarding the management of the change process (p=0.00). There were no differences in faculty members' expectations according to their gender, title, department, being a manager, playing a role in the change process and being a committee member. On the other hand, faculty members who played a role in the change process (p=0.03) and were a member of a committee (p=0.04), had lower perceptions about the change process than who did/were not.
Conclusions: Our results show that process of change wasefficientlymanaged,and a better process of change was achieved than expected. Despite the overall high perceptions of faculty members, there is a need of explanation why those who were active in the process of change had lower perceptions.
Methods: The students' feedback and observational notes were presented by descriptive analysis in this evaluation study.
Results: Most of the senior class students participated in the program (n=26) reported that they participated MP on a mandatory basis because other selective courses quotas were full. The students found more suitable short-term educational activities such as educational presentation and video monitoring due to no workload for them and useful for their professional life. Their exam scores, given after these activities, were higher than the other exams. However, even if the students defined homework and participation to research as 'attractive, dissimilar, effective', their motivation in participation in these practices and their scores at the end was low.
Conclusions: As the essential destination of the students is to complete faculty program to graduate, and to prepare specialization exam. Participants have ignored practices such as research, self-learning practices that time-consuming and did not contribute to learning. Therefore, it may not be false to say that students have strategic and orientated learning trends.
Key Words: learning motivation, learning orientation, program evaluation, dental education
Summary of results: Answers are embedded to the matrix table to take a snapshot of the curriculum. In a table we summarized organ systems in columns and departments in rows. Endocrine and Metabolism system questions were best correct answers rate while Urogenital System lowest. Infectious Disease Department is rated worst by students’ answers as feedback. But by using matrix table we found infectious disease question, which related respiratory system having good correct rate while cardiovascular infectious disease was worst. Such results provide us with the opportunity to criticize a specific point.
Conclusions: Our results show that progress testing is a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate effectiveness of departments and divisions in undergraduate medical education.
Take-home messages: The Matrix Analysis Table gives perfect clues to students and curriculum designers about their strength and weakness.
Methods: This study has been applied on 96 students (volunteers participating in sign language course and not participating in this program). In this experimental study random design was used and the student version of the JSPE was applied. The empathy scale includes 20 items to measure the three underlying constructs of empathy (perspective taking, compassionate care, and standing in patient's shoes). Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale includes 27 items and four sub-scales (motivation, perseverance, lack of self-regulation and lack of curiosity). In data analysis, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis was used.
Results: The mean score of students' empathy scale is low, and compassionate care in girls was higher than boys (p=0.15). Lifelong learning tendency scores of students were low and these scores varied among participating and not participating students (p=0,000). There were higher scores on the motivation scores of the participants. The students' scores of persistence in learning differed by their class, difference was found between the first and second classes (p=0,000).
Conclusions: There is a need for analysis in depth why students' empathy and lifelong learning levels is low for all kinds of educational activity. More studies should be included in medical education curriculum to stimulate their intrinsic motivations.
Key Words: medical student, professionalism, empathy, lifelong learning
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The assessment books are commonly used by educators, teachers, instructors, and professional teaching communities. Medical educators share their basic knowledge of assessment with other clinicians in their schools. While schools modified the assessment strategies to fit their subject, many teachers have a desire to have a parallel understanding with each other, using similar words from the assessment medium glossary. This book is prepared for teachers in higher education, and many of the words in this glossary can be grabbed by teaching staff in any kind of educational departments. This book also has been prepared to address the need to comprehend the A to Z meaning of the definitions of assessment and evaluation. The educator (or instructors) can be more helpful to students when they are aware of a variety of different ideas and strategies on thinking, problem-solving skills, and communication skills. However, in addition, students should be subjected to a fair and effective assessment and evaluation process. It is precisely for this reason that it is beneficial for as many instructors as possible in a higher education institution to speak the same language in assessment and evaluation.
Disciplines such as molecular biology and genetics (MOBIG), chemistry, biology, and medicine provide lectures and practical skills training in different specialized laboratories.
The most important consideration for MOBIG students is the diversity in the educational process that goes from mastering basic cell concepts to challenging molecular biology and/or genetic problems. Promoting learning environments with a strong emphasis on differentiated teaching methods and distance learning plays a very important role in this context. In fact, these environments guarantee the learner to be given the time necessary to learn autonomously within a personally customized time frame.
Sağlık hizmetlerinde memnuniyet yek başına sağlık hizmeti alan birey, sağlık hizmeti sunan profesyonel ve sağlık hizmeti sunulan sağlık tesisi üçgeninden oluşan bir eylemler bütünü olarak algılanacak değildir. Sağlık hizmeti mutlaka sosyal ve çevresel faktörleriyle öncelikle bölgesel sonrasında ülke genelinde sağlık politikalarının bir sonucudur. Geniş bakış açısıyla ülkeye yön veren tüm politikaları ve karar süreçlerini etkileyecek ve sonuç çıktıda her zaman hedeflenmesi ve öncelenmesi gereken en önemli faktördür.
Tıp hukuku, başta anayasa hukuku olmak üzere, ceza hukuku, idare hukuku ve medeni hukuka ilişkin konuları da kapsamına alan interdisipliner bir hukuk dalıdır. Tıbbın uygulanmasından kaynaklanan hekim, hastane işleteni ve hatta Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın sağlık turisti karşısındaki hukuki sorumluluğu, yabancılık unsuru içermesi sebebiyle “milletlerarası tıp hukuku” başlığı altında incelenmesini gerektirir. Ancak bilinmelidir ki, sağlık hukuku alanında devletlerin milli hukuklarının yanında birden çok devlet için birleştirilmiş “milletlerarası tıp hukuku” bulunmamaktadır. Gelecekte de dünya üzerindeki her devlette uygulanabilen bir milletlerarası tıp hukukunun tesis edilmesi güçtür. Burada kullanılan “milletlerarası” kelimesi, bu hukukun kaynağını değil, kapsamına aldığı konuların yabancılık unsuru içermesini ifade etmek için kullanılmalıdır.
Uluslararası Ticarete Konu Olan Hizmet Sektörleri Hizmet ticaretine konu olan sektörler listesi; Birleşmiş Milletler tarafından belirlenen sektörel sınıflandırma kitabı esas alınarak Dünya Ticaret Örgütü Sekretaryası tarafından hazırlanan MTN.GNS/W/120 sayılı belge ile üye ülkelerin bilgilerine sunulmuştur. Söz konusu belgede yer alan sektörler / alt sektörler incelendiğinde sağlık “tıbbi ve diş hekimliği hizmetleri” olarak “Mesleki Hizmetler” ana başlığının altında “uzmanlık gerektiren hizmetler” alt başlığı grubunda listelenmiştir.
Sağlık turizmi; sadece tıbbi tedavi almak adına yapılan planlı bir hareketlilik değil aynı zamanda termal sağlık tesislerinde rehabilitasyon ve yaşlı bakım merkezlerinde kronik hastalık takibini de kapsamaktadır.
Hastalar tedavi süreçlerinde tüm işlemlerin takibi için tek bir iletişim noktasının (kurumun veya kişinin) olmasını arzularlar. Aynı şekilde hastanelerde de vaka yöneticisi kişi ya da hasta bakım koordinatörü olarak tanımlayabileceğimiz bir kişi ya da kişilerin hastane içinde yapılacak tüm hizmetleri koordine etmesi ve özellikle sosyal yoksunluk baskısından hastayı koruması, sürecin başarılı bir şekilde yönetilmesi için çok önemlidir. Hastanın tedavi süreci için, hastanenin ise tedavi planlaması ve maliyet hesaplaması yapabilmek için mümkün olabildiğince doğru bilgi edinmeye gereksinimi olur.
Türkiye iklimi, denizi, kumsalları, termal kaynakları, talassoterapi olanakları, ormanları, yaylaları yanında THY gibi dünya da en çok noktaya uçuş yapan bir ulusal havayolu markası ile sunduğu ulaşım kolaylığı sayesinde medikal turizm ve alternatif sağlık turizme için en ideal bölgedir. Aynı zamanda ülkemiz, medikal sağlık turizmi açısından ülke genelindeki üniversite hastaneleri, eğitim araştırma hastaneleri ve özel sağlık kuruluşları ile kaliteli hizmetin odak noktası olmayı hak etmektedir.
İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir ve Antalya gibi şehirlerin dünya genelindeki tanınırlığı, devlet politikası haline gelmiş turizm altyapısı ve dünya turizm pazarından aldığı pay ile Türkiye iyi bir planlama sayesinde sağlık turizminde de arzulanan noktaya ulaşacaktır. Son 5 yıldır üst üste yıllık tatil amaçlı turistik ziyaretin 30.000.000 kişiyi aştığı ve 2014 yılında toplam 42.000.000 civarında ziyaretçi verisi üzerinden elimizde önemli bir iletişim hedef grubu olduğu da görülecektir.
Hekimlik dünyanın en eski mesleklerindendir. Hekimlik yapan bu ilk insandan itibaren bilgi ve tecrübeler birikmiş ve usta-çırak ilişkisi ile asırlarca gelişerek aktarılmıştır. Tarih öncesi çağlarda ruhların hastalık sebebi olduğu inancı nedeniyle tedavi ile uğraşanların ruhlar dünyasıyla ilişkiye girebilecek, doğanın gizli güçlerine hükmedebilecek güçte olmasını gerekli görüldüğünden bu dönemlerde hekimler aynı zamanda kabilelerin büyücüsü idiler. Büyücü hekime ait veriler değişik coğrafyalarda bulunan mağara resimlerinden ve ilkel yaşam biçimini sürdüren Afrikalı, Avustralyalı ve Güney Amerikalı gibi yerliler hakkında son yüzyıllarda yapılmış olan alan çalışmalardan öğrenilmektedir. En eski cerrahi uygulamalardan olan sünnet ise yine aynı çalışmalarla on beş bin yıl öncesine tarihlenebilmektedir.
Globalleşen dünya da, ülkeler arasında işbirliğinin, seyahat özgürlüklerinin ve imkanlarının artması, ulaşımda kolaylıklar sağlanması, sağlık hizmetinde kalitenin dünyanın değişik köşelerinde de gelişmesi, sağlık hizmeti finansmanında hem bireysel hem de bütçe kaynaklı güçlükler, dünya da sağlık turizmi kavramının önemini giderek artırmıştır.
Günümüzde sanayileşme ve kentleşme sonucu meydana gelen sorunlar insan ve toplum sağlığı üzerinde olumsuz etkiler oluşturmaktadır. Sağlıksız toplumlarda işgücü ve üretim kapasitesi azalmaktadır. İnsan sağlığını korumak, işgücü verimini ve üretimi arttırmak amacı ile doğal turizm kaynakları (temiz hava, güneş, şifalı termal sular, iklim) olanaklarından faydalanılmaktadır.
Termal suyun tedavi amacıyla kullanılabilmesi için o suyun yeraltından çıkan doğal termal su olması, sıcaklığının 20o C üzerinde bulunması, litresinde ise en az bir gram mineral bulunması gerekir. Termal tedavi kürleri sadece hastalar için birer tedavi değil, aynı zamanda sağlıklı bireyler için de sağlığı güçlendirici, destekleyici aktif dinlenme tatillerine dönüşmüştür. Günümüz insanı artık termal sağlık tesisi tercih ederken, kendi ülkesinden farklı iklim, tarih ve kültürel özelliklere sahip ülkeleri seçmektedir.
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Includes articles all up to date medical activities originated and derived in expert opinion based and/or scientific evidence-based aiming at health promotion, prevention, therapy and rehabilitation.
Articles are published in English. Regular sections include original articles reporting basic research, review articles, editorials, and letters to the Editor.
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