Evaluation of unintentional injuries sustained by children: A hospital based study from Ankara-Turkey.

Objectives: Unintentional injuries are one of the leading causes of death, hospitalization and disability across the world. Detailed work on child injury in low-income and middle-income countries began more recently and is now indicating priorities for prevention. This study aims to draw attention to the subject with the assessment of the injuries sustained by the study group.

Analysis of health promoting lifestyle behaviors and associated factors among nurses at a university hospital in Turkey.

Objective: To determine the health promotion lifestyle behaviors (HPLB) of nurses working in a university medical faculty hospital in Turkey and to investigate the factors related behaviors.

Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in Ankara University Medical Faculty Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, between January 2008 and 23 January 2009. Two hundred and eighty nurses were recruited randomly out of 550 female nurses.

An analysis of the prevalence of malaria in Turkey over the last 85 years.

Background: Affecting 106 countries, malaria is a major global burden. Though intensive antimalaria efforts in Turkey have been successful in bringing down the number of cases, historically malaria was a serious public health concern.

Methods: This paper reviews the prevalence rates of malaria in Turkey over the last 85 years (1925-2010).

Evaluation of awareness of diabetes mellitus and associated factors in four health center areas.

Objective: As in all chronic diseases, providing patients with necessary information about Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and educating them are the best method of control of DM and preventing further complication. The aim of this study was to investigate the awareness of DM and related factors in diabetics.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in four health centre areas of Ankara (n = 96,348) between 1997 and 2000.

Microalbuminuria: prevalence in hypertensives and diabetics.

Background: Microalbuminuria is the mild elevation of urinary albumin excretion and reflects the progression of clinical nephropathy and cardiovascular disease and mortality risks of diabetic and hypertensive patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for microalbuminuria amongst Turkish people who had diabetes and/or hypertension and were older than 35 years of age.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, from a pool of 7708 people over 35 years of age living in the Park Health Centre Area of Ankara, Turkey, we randomly selected 550 out of 926 hypertensive and/or diabetic patients.

Natural immunity to Haemophilus influenzae type B in children of Ankara, Turkey.

Background: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection has a high morbidity and mortality rate especially in children under 5 years of age. The incidence of Hib disease in Turkey is not known, and Hib vaccine is not included in the National Immunization Program. The aim of this study was to determine the natural immunity to Hib of children 6-60 months of age living in the Park Health Center region of Ankara, Turkey.