Open AccessThe Impact of Six Decades of Trauma on the Health of Iraqi People
Author(s) -
Hikmet Jamil,
Manhel R. A. Albahri,
Nadia H. AlNoor,
Taghreed Al Noor,
Thamer A Hamdan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1294/6/062101
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , medicine , environmental health , anxiety , psychiatry , mental health , alcohol abuse , disease , demography , pathology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Over the course of six decades, Iraq exposed to many events that have affected the Iraqi people from the social, physical and mental aspects. In this study, two groups of people (2369), from Iraq (G1) and the Michigan, United States (U.S) of America (G2) selected to compare the prevalence rate and effects of trauma factors such as mental illness (anxiety, depression and PTS), somatic diseases (heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes), substances abuse (illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco), and chemicals pollution), and self-rated health among the two groups. The study results reveals a significant different between the two groups in the all indicators for trauma. The study conclude that Iraqi in U.S. (G2) suffer from factors completely differed from that Iraqi who are resident in Iraq (G1).