تحليل مكاني للوفيات بالأمراض السرطانية في محافظة القادسية

Abstract EN

The results of the study showed that cancer is a very serious health problem and the main cause of death in the study area as a result of the accumulation of geographical environmental factors (natural and human), especially the environmental pollution factor, which played an important role in the emergence of the disease and the high incidence of it and death, especially after the years of wars that followed on Iraq Since 1991, and the radioactive residues of the second Gulf War in 2003, Al-Qadisiyah governorate witnessed a spatial discrepancy between the decrease and increase in the number of deaths from cancerous diseases among its administrative units for the study period between (2010-2019), as the total number of deaths from cancerous tumors was recorded about (1233 cases).

Al-Shamiya district ranked first with death rates amounting to about (1.2 per thousand), followed by Al-Hamza district with a percentage of (1.0 per thousand), then Al- Diwaniyah district with a percentage of (0.8 per thousand), then Afak district with a rate of about (0.7 per thousand), and this trend The irregular mortality in the study area is nothing but a reflection of the increasing rates of cancerous tumors and the variation in their general rates, which left a clear and tangible impact on the size of the population and its impact on the age structure and age.

awareness of them.