Sağlık Politikalarının COVID-19 Sürecine Etkileri

Abstract

Aim: Many people around the world are still affected by coronavirus disease. The high spread rate of the COVID-19 and the number of deaths make it more important than ever to understand the behavior of the disease. In this work, the effects of health policies on the COVID-19 process is examined by taking into account various data.Material and Methods: Official articles, circulars issued by decision makers, Worldometer and Our World in Data websites are used to study the effects of the health policies on the COVID-19 process from 10.03.2020 to 30.06.2021. The scenario in which the appropriate precautions were not taken by decision makers is also considered by simulating data with the method of least squares.Results: It has been determined that the measures taken have positive effects with a delay of 12-15 days. We observe that the policies adopted for the COVID-19 process are effective in reducing the number of cases and deaths. We note that there were increases in the number of cases after the removal of some measures. Overall, Turkey's situation in terms of total case and mortality rates in COVID-19 process is better than the average of some European and neighboring countries. Conclusion:The results shows that Turkey has quite disciplined and successful health policy to overcome coronavirus disease.