Innovative Journal Journal of Medical Biomedical and Applied Sciences 2277:4939 10 05 Coronavirus As a Public Health Problem, Recent Developments and Public Health Nurses’ Roles 1 MEHMET UÇAR Lecturer, Muş Alparslan University, Muş, Turkey/ 49250, Department of Public Health Nursing Phd Student Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey / 44280 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.15520/ijmhs.v10i03.285 Abstract The number of coronavirus-caused deaths is increasing and this is turning into a public health problem. The virus occurred in an open animal market in the People's Republic of China. It infects people and is threatening the whole world. The number of deaths is gradually increasing. Health professionals are making efforts to solve this problem, thus they are at great risk. This situation, which has become a public health problem, lays a new burden on public health nurses. Such cases have increased in the 21st century and epidemics called SARS, MERS, avian influenza, swine influenza, and finally, COVID-19 have occurred. Governments and healthcare providers should take the necessary precautions and perform their tasks to prevent such outbreaks. All healthcare professionals, especially public health nurses, should provide training, counseling and preventive healthcare services on COVID-19 for the society. Governments should take necessary and sufficient measures to prevent the spread of such outbreaks and develop health policies. Kato, Fuminori, Tainaka, Kei-ichi, Sone, Shogo, Morita, Satoru, Iida, Hiroyuki, Yoshimura, Jin, Combined effects of prevention and quarantine on a breakout in SIR model, Scientific Reports, 2011, 1, 1, 10, 10, 2045-2322, 10.1038/srep00010, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00010 http://www.who.int/en/.DateofAccess Hui, David S., I Azhar, Esam, Madani, Tariq A., Ntoumi, Francine, Kock, Richard, Dar, Osman, Ippolito, Giuseppe, Mchugh, Timothy D., Memish, Ziad A., Drosten, Christian, Zumla, Alimuddin, Petersen, Eskild, The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020, 91, 264, 266, 1201-9712, 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.01.009, Elsevier BV, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.01.009 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak Avaliable from URL, 2020 Avcı, A, , I, Infectious Diseases and Care with Social Dimension In: Behice Erci (Ed) Public Health Nursing, 2016, 294, 310 Asahara, Kiyomi, Kobayashi, Maasa, Ono, Wakanako, Moral competence questionnaire for public health nurses in Japan: Scale development and psychometric validation, Japan Journal of Nursing Science, 2015, 12, 1, 18, 26, 1742-7932, 10.1111/jjns.12044, Wiley, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jjns.12044 Ministry, T R, Health, 2019-nCoV DISEASE GUIDE, Turkish) Avaliable from URL, 2020 Construction of Wuhan prefab hospitals close to completion, 2020, https://www.cgtn.com/