التوزيع المكاني لبعض الأمراض المزمنة في محافظة البصرة

الملخص EN

Medical Geography is concerned with studying the distribution of diseases, their prevalence and their spatial variation.

Chronic diseases constitute a huge burden facing countries and societies, both developed and developing, as they are one of the most prevalent diseases which cause deaths in the world; therefore, the direction of the research was determined in the study of the spatial distribution of some chronic diseases in Basrah governorate, which included the study of five chronic diseases (diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, and cancer diseases), through a quantitative analysis of the spatial patterns of the spread of these diseases.

The official, unpublished data for the injuries recorded in the Basrah Health Department for the year 2018 was relied on, and the results were presented in tabulated and cartographic methods, after processing the available data in statistical and computerized methods.

The results of the research indicated that there is a spatial variation in terms of cases of some chronic diseases at the level of governorate districts, in addition to a direct relationship between the number of injured and the population, as cases of infection often rise in the main urban centers that are more densely populated, but this does not mean that there are some exceptions in the distribution of spatial patterns of some diseases at the place level due to several of environmental factors in the study area.