Examining the factors that affect the vaccination rate among young people in an ethical frame can support vaccination promotion. Therefore, this study will elaborate, through an ethical lens, on young people’s hesitation about and decisions regarding getting vaccinated. The cross-sectional study was conducted with 2428 people aged 15–30 in Turkey in June 2022. The questionnaire included the following subtitles: psycho-social situation, health services and health policies, COVID-19 vaccine, and predictions about life and health after the pandemic. The average age was 22.9 years. In the study sample, 80% were vaccinated, while 20% were not. Vaccinated participants acted more cautiously to protect their health. Receiving accurate and sufficient information on proposed vaccines affects vaccination status. The primary reason for getting vaccinated was “to protect their health, families, and relatives”, and the primary reason for not getting vaccinated was “not trusting the vaccine content or the country where the vaccine was produced”. Specifically, those vaccinated felt more relaxed physically, psychologically, and socially. In addition, the expectations for the future of those vaccinated were significantly higher. Accurate and adequate information is essential for reducing vaccine hesitancy. In addition, promoting prosocial behaviors in young people and highlighting related values will support vaccination.

This multicenter, cross-sectional study aimed to determine and examine the privacy awareness and patient rights education of healthcare professionals working in intensive care units (ICUs). The primary purpose of this study was to determine the privacy awareness of healthcare professionals working in the ICU. In addition, the secondary aim was to examine the relationship between patient rights education and awareness scores, as well as to question the need for privacy awareness education. The study population consisted of ICU physicians, nurses, and allied health personnel working in university hospitals, training and research hospitals, state hospitals, and private hospitals in Turkey. The data were collected through a questionnaire prepared by the researchers, including a question set about sociodemographics, a question about patient rights education, and the privacy awareness scale (PAS) scores using online Google Forms. In the results of the study conducted among 569 participants, the mean total PAS score was 38.31 ± 2.54. The PAS score was significantly different according to the occupation. The PAS scores of the nurses were higher than physicians and allied health personnel. The PAS scores differed according to whether the participants had received patient rights education. This study found that nurses were the group with the highest PAS scores among healthcare professionals. In addition, the PAS scores of nurses working in private and training and research hospitals were higher than those of other hospital employees. On the other hand, the lowest scores belonged to university hospitals and receiving patient rights education increased the PAS score of the nurses. This study showed that all enrolled healthcare professionals required in-service training to gain privacy awareness.

Aim: There have been many pandemics that have left deep traces in human history. Many pandemics have caused crises in societies and negative consequences on health, economy, social and global security. Pandemics are foreseen as processes that will continue to exist in the future as they have in the past and present. Therefore, examining past pandemics can serve to better understand, analyze and manage future pandemic processes. From this point of view, this article aims to emphasize past pandemics through philately medicine, to draw attention to possible pandemics in the future, and to raise awareness about the precautions to be taken. Materials and Methods: This article focuses on describing the discovery and development of pandemics around the world through historical stamps, postal history and other related items. Philately is the study of stamps, postal history and other related items. But philately is much more than stamp collecting. Philately involves the study of the design and educational impact of a material. This article presents medicine historical stamps produced worldwide from the past to the present to highlight the history of the pandemic. The stamp captions are based on a scan of the 6-volume Scott Catalog of Standard Postage Stamps (2017). The copyright of the stamps used in the article belongs to the philatelist author Results: This article presents pandemic stamps produced worldwide between 1962 and 2020. In the article, a total of 17 philatelic materials (historical stamps) are presented on the subject of describing the prehistoric life of people, infectious diseases that cause pandemics, transmission routes of epidemics, prevention, treatment approaches, losses in pandemics and struggles against pandemics. Discussion and Conclsiıons: This research provides an overview of the development and history of pandemics around the world, using philatelic medicine materials produced worldwide during pandemics from past to present.