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Environment and health in Southern Iraq: Facts and future prospects. | ||
| Mesopotamian Journal of Marine Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-19 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| O.S. Habib | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Health as a product of complex interaction of many factors related to host, disease agent and environment is some thing that can not be sacrificed for any other thing. Actually all other attributes in life may be sacrificed for health. Modern health care systems tend to emphasize high technology in diagnostic and therapeutic care, yet the overall burden of disease on human being did not change a lot. One of the reasons why this did not take places the fact that most of ill health is related to ill environment. The effect of environment on health is neither well understood nor well invested in. In Iraq, it is believed and it can be seen that the environment has been so damaged that its repair is beyond the capacity of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment. Indeed, the repair of environment needs a total national effort. The marshes of southern Iraq as an important and unique ecosystem have been greatly distorted. The improvement of environment as a whole can not be imagined unless it encompasses the marshes situation. In this paper, we attempt to explore the main environmental problems concentrating on those related to health. Then we put a proposal to deal with specific aspects within an overall approach to monitor, rehabilitate and protect the environment in Iraq in the long run. | ||
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