Browsing by Author "Yarar,O."

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Effect of environmental policies on costs and profitabilityof company in purchasing decisions of healthcare institutions
(2009) Yarar, Onur; Yarar,O.; Ozyaral,O.; Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı / Mouth and Dental Health
The theory of corporate social responsibility promotes, without regarding sector differences, all corporations not to consider only economic and financial issue, but also stakeholders as well as social and environmental burdens born to community where the company operates. The Neo-classic model of corporate social responsibility recommends companies to obey moral minimum while seeking maximum profits and within this context, the model advises particularly to integrate corporate social responsibility into purchasing strategies1. Healthcare institutions, which are required to be a role model, should have a duty which encompasses creating profit in one side and behaving more carefully in terms of social and environmental responsibility and those institutions should follow particular implementations to balance financial performance with social responsibility. Superior model of sustainable development emphasizes the necessity that businesses should have rational behavior and ethical responsibility for use of resources in acceptable rates and compensating resultant losses. A company is strictly subject to the duty that it has to ensure company operations are ecologically sustainable. Primary requisite of this implementation is that healthcare institutions should be subjected to legal, financial and reputation risks due to their anti-environmental acts. When many financial factor related to corporatre social responsibility are summed, they have qualifications to ensure rational decision makers voluntarily accept said factor set. Environmentally preferable purchasing is a product/service purchasing activity whereby environmental impacts are considered and found to cause less damage on environment and human health when compared with competitor products/services. It also includes a gradual and continuous process where a hospital continually reviews and expands scope of efforts for selecting environmentally substantial, healthy and safe products. Environmentally preferable purchasing provides significant cost savings in economical aspects for healthcare institutions such as reducing overheads, avoiding waste and decreasing responsibility and professional health costs and thus, it creates positive effect on profitability. In this study, economic benefits provided due to integration of social values into purchasing activities by healthcare institutions, which should be a model in terms of social responsibility and environmental conscience, are investigated and modest recommendations on this issue are developed. © 2009 All Rights Reserved by the International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM Printed in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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The effects of COVID-19 on health tourism and tourist health
(IGI Global, 2021) Bulun,M.A.; Yarar, Onur; Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı / Mouth and Dental Health
The high epidemic rate of COVID-19, its impact on the shrinkage in the world economy, and changes in the daily routines of people show that it is not only a problem that concerns public health, but also a major concern which coerces people (and countries) all over the world to rethink in the name of sustainability of contemporary lifestyles and to work on systemic changes. Undoubtedly, health tourism is one of these subjects. In this chapter, the authors present an overview of COVID-19's effects on health tourism and tourist health. © 2021, IGI Global.
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Measurement of radiation dose in thyroid scintigraphy
(Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Günay,O.; Sarıhan, Mucize; Yarar, Onur; Akkurt,İ.; Demir,M.; Radyoterapi / Radiotherapy; Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı / Mouth and Dental Health
Determination of radiation dose rate is very important for public health and medical workers because the nuclear radiation is hazardous for all. In this study, radiation dose rate was determined after radiopharmaceutical injection for thyroid scintigraphy. Measurements of the dose rate were made at 12 different points: 25, 50, 100, and 200 cm from the patient’s head, chest and foot level. Moreover, measurements were made at different times with GM counter to determine the dose rate decay. The amount of radioactivity injected into patients varies between 151 MBq (4.1 Ci) and 192 MBq (5.2 Ci), with average value of 162 MBq (4.4 Ci). The radiation dose rate at 100 cm from the patient’s chest level, after 9.16, 28.83 and 49.66 min of injection was calculated as 7.56, 6.35 and 4.73 µSvh−1, respectively. After Tc-99m injection, healthcare professionals must be 1 m away from the patient for radiation safety. It was also emphasized that the public should not be in proximity to the patient nearer than 1 m for 3 h after injection. © 2020 Polish Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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Use of environmental preference in purchasing decisions healthcare institutions
(2009) Yarar, Onur; Yarar,O.; Tükel,A.; Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı / Mouth and Dental Health
Biggest challenge experienced by hospitals in 21st century is integrating social values into business operations. Corporate Social Responsibility is a term used for determining responsibility of a healthcare institute whereby the institute not only takes financial economic dimension in decision-making process, but it also considers social and environmental consequences.1 Healthcare institutions are required to invest socially responsible manner; this term is related with use of money in accordance with social and ethical targets. Consequently, healthcare institutions should be socially responsible not only from shareholders and employees, but also from all parties including future generations affected from operations of the institution. In a study where potential risks for healthcare institutions are investigated, corporate social responsibility level and extent of environmental sensitivity in decision-making for purchasing a good or service were revealed as a significant assessment for consumers and employees of company2. Considering healthcare institutions, strategies taking environmental and social aspects into account for purchasing decisions should be implemented and the institutions neglecting those strategies should be exposed to financial, legal and reputation risks due to their anti-environmental acts. At initiation phase for implementing environmentally preferable purchasing in healthcare institutions, policies and procedures compatible with environment should be incorporated. Individual who will ensure that those policies are followed and how they will be held responsible (for example, regular reporting) should be determined in writing monitoring those policies and how those individuals will be considered and thus, an audit process should be developed where concurrent performance will be regularly reviewed. However, it is obvious that training requirement healthcare personnel responsible from purchasing services on environmentalist policies should be fulfilled. Training is critical part of implementation. In this study, integration of social values into purchasing activities by healthcare institutions, which should be a model in terms of social responsibility and environmental conscience, is evaluated and modest recommendations on this issue are developed. © 2009 All Rights Reserved by the International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM Printed in Sofia, Bulgaria.