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Trend of measles in Turkey: A retrospective secondary data analysis
Turgut Sahinoz1, Saime Sahinoz2, Nahsan Kaya3
1Department of Health Management, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey.
Objective:
To evaluate trends and epidemiological assessment about measles outbreak.
Methods:
The retrospective secondary-data study was conducted at Turkey in the form of record scanning and the data of the whole country were scanned, from August 24, 2018, to April 5, 2020, and covered measles cases reported to the Ministry of Health between 1960 and 2019 and published in the statistical annuals.
Results:
Over the 60-year period, there were 1,050,567 reported cases of measles, translating into 17,509 cases per year, with an incidence rate of 32.03 cases per hundred thousand. There were 18(30%) years in which the outbreak touched epidemic proportions. With the onset of vaccination in 1969, the incidence rate decreased to about 27/100,000. The incidence rate of measles decreased by 62% compared to pre-vaccination after a single dose of vaccine, and approximately 80% after the initiation of the Extended Immunisation Programme.
Conclusions:
Due to problems in school vaccination, rejection of vaccines and imported cases in the country, fresh measles outbreaks have occurred in Turkey in recent years. Measles elimination target, as such, will have to be extended.
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