Impact of environmental factors in the spatial variation of the disease of respiratory allergy and asthma in the province of Dhi Qar in 2009 | ||
Journal of The Thi Qar Arts | ||
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 5, March 2012, Pages 217-229 | ||
Authors | ||
dr. abdul emam nassar deiri; abbas izgheir muheisin | ||
Abstract | ||
The environment is the medium in which the human live and thus play a significant role in the determination of his health level. Respiratory disease, respiratory allergies and asthma has multiple causes, compatible with and due to the multiplicity of tissues and organs that being infections involved firstly, and for multiplicity of environmental factors that cause disease secondly. However, any geographic area (regardless of its location) must be characterized by environmental geographical features differ from other regions. Therefore, Th-iqar Governorate having different and variable environmental factors, whether those factors was natural such as the most important one (climate and its components), or by various human activities, which is negatively reflected on the contamination of the study area especially air pollution that is in addition to affect of military operations which contributed in the pollution of the study area environment by causing dismantling or eruption of soil components and thus increased the repeated ablation of wind and dust weather phenomena. So we will study the regional variation of the respiratory allergies and asthma distribution on the basis of administrative units (districts) and bases on excerption data of 2009, according to studied disease records, which was collected from hospitals across the province, so we adopted a calculating method of the prevalence that rated per 10,000 from population. | ||
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