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Understanding dynamics of pandemics   
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Levent Akın
Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gökhan GÖZEL
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
Along the centuries, novel strain of virus such as influenza produces pandemics which increase illness, death and disruptionin the countries. Spanish flu in 1918, Asian flu in 1957, Hong Kong flu in 1968 and swine flu in 2009 were known pandemic which hadvarious characteristics in terms of morbidity and mortality. A current pandemic is caused by novel corona virus originated from China.COVID-19 pandemic is very similar to Spanish, Hong Kong, Asian and swine influenza pandemics in terms of spreading to worldby the mobilized people. Burden of pandemic is considered in terms of disease transmissibility and the growth rate of epidemic andduration of pandemic can be calculated by transmissibility characteristic. The case definition, finding out cases and first case cluster,proper treatment, sufficient stockpiles of medicine and population cooperation with the containment strategy should be considered forreduction of burden of pandemic.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Makale Türü Diğer (Teknik, not, yorum, vaka takdimi, editöre mektup, özet, kitap krıtiği, araştırma notu, bilirkişi raporu ve benzeri)
Makale Alt Türü SCI, SSCI, AHCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan teknik not, editöre mektup, tartışma, vaka takdimi ve özet türünden makale
Dergi Adı TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
Dergi ISSN 1300-0144
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili Türkçe
Basım Tarihi 01-2020
Cilt No 50
Sayfalar 515 / 519
Doi Numarası 10.3906/sag-2004-133
BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Atıf Sayıları
TRDizin 11
Understanding dynamics of pandemics

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