Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene among women living in precarious households in a Turkish urban area.

Background: This study aimed to identify the determinants of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors and conditions among women in poor neighborhoods in Izmir, Turkey, and to develop a scale for assessing WASH behaviors and conditions that is specifically designed for use in precarious urban areas.

Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design, as well as a methodological feature for developing the scale. The sample size was calculated as 243 households out of 2667 households in the Basmane neighborhood, with a 95% confidence interval and a 6% margin of error, and a woman who was responsible for cleaning was invited to participate from each household.

Strengthening the social resilience of people living at the intersection of precariousness and migration during pandemics: action recommendations developed in Munich, Germany.

Introduction: An EU-funded project in five countries examined vulnerability mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team in Germany concentrated on people living at the intersection of migration and precariousness. The study aimed first to provide an understanding of how migrants living in precarious conditions in Munich had been affected by the pandemic, both from their own and from experts' perspectives.

Access to primary health care family planning services and contraceptive use in disadvantaged women: a qualitative study.

Objectives: The study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the gender-related determinants and organisational structure of primary health care that shape contraceptive use among disadvantaged women living in a developing Islamic country where family planning services are affected by health care reforms.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted in three disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the metropolitan district of Bornova, Izmir. A purposive sampling method with maximum diversity was used to obtain a study sample of 43 women.

Effects of an oral health program: Community-based education among mothers of young children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Introduction: An oral health program for mothers starting from pregnancy in a disadvantaged district of İzmir was performed in 2013-2016. Dental behaviors and their determinants among intervention and control groups were compared in the third phase of the program.

Methods: This nonrandomized-controlled study was conducted in Phase 3.

Access to health care after dental trauma in children: A quantitative and qualitative evaluation.

Background/aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accessibility of proper and on-time treatment after dental trauma in children and to explore the affecting factors via parents' and health professionals' perspectives. The study is important to understand how to improve access to dental treatment after trauma.

Materials And Method: The method included quantitative and qualitative parts.

The PUFFinCA scale: development of an instrument for evaluating the primary care functions of family physicians in childhood asthma.

AimTo develop the Primary care fUnctions oF Family physicians in Childhood Asthma (PUFFinCA) scale for evaluating the cardinal process functions of primary care services (accessibility, comprehensiveness, continuity and coordination) provided by family physicians (FPs) in the management of childhood asthma. BACKGROUND: In the literature on the functions of primary care, there is no assessment tool focusing on children with asthma. Primary care assessment scales adapted to various languages are not suitable to adequately address the needs of special patient groups, such as children with asthma.

Perceptions of Turkish dentists of their professional identity in a market-orientated system.

This study explores the perceptions of Turkish dentists of their professional identity and of the effects of market orientation in dentistry. This phenomenological study used a qualitative approach using a group of Turkish dentists, who were selected based on the principle of maximum variation. Four focus groups and 31 in-depth interviews were conducted.

The influence of a market-oriented primary care reform on family physicians' working conditions: A qualitative study in Turkey.

Background: Turkey has undergone a 'Health transformation programme' putting emphasis on the reorganization of primary care (PC) services towards a more market-oriented system.

Objectives: To obtain a deep understanding of how family physicians (FPs) experienced the process of the reforms by focusing on working conditions.

Methods: This phenomenological and qualitative research used maximum variation sampling and 51 FPs were interviewed in 36 in-depth and four focus-group interviews.

Family medicine model in Turkey: a qualitative assessment from the perspectives of primary care workers.

Background: A person-list-based family medicine model was introduced in Turkey during health care reforms. This study aimed to explore from primary care workers' perspectives whether this model could achieve the cardinal functions of primary care and have an integrative position in the health care system.

Methods: Four groups of primary care workers were included in this exploratory-descriptive study.

Public health education in Ege University Medical Faculty: developing a community-oriented model.

Background: Ege University Medical Faculty (EUMF) introduced a community-oriented curriculum in 2001.

Aims: To evaluate the new public health education program in EUMF curriculum.

Method: The study adopted triangulated methods.

Evaluation of an educational programme in Ege University, Turkey: medical student's home visits with midwife preceptors.

Objective: to evaluate the efficiency of the midwife preceptors in teaching comprehensive health care for women and their families through exploring how they perceive their roles as educators and from the perspectives of medical students; to assess the number of educational goals achieved.

Design: for midwives, a quantitative method was used for pre- and post-evaluation of a 'Medical Students' Home Visits with Midwife Preceptors' course. Focus-group interviews were used to gather qualitative data.

Factors associated with the utilization and content of prenatal care in a western urban district of Turkey.

Objective: To define the prenatal care utilization pattern in Bornova and determine the factors affecting the amount and content of prenatal care.

Design: Follow-up study.

Setting: Bornova is an urban district in western Turkey.

Evaluation of a dental health education program for midwives.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of a dental health program for the midwives in primary health care services in Izmir, Turkey.

Methods: One hundred sixty-four midwives participated in the pilot project. The program was evaluated by quantitative and qualitative methods.