التحليل المكاني للامراض المزمنة في محافظة كربلاء ( داء السكري و الضغط إنموذجًا )

Spatial Analysis of Chronic Diseases in Kerbala Province: Diabetes and Blood Pressure a Model

showed that there is a difference among the administrative units in Kerbala province. It concentrated in the cities centers that have huge population gatherings such as kerbala district center, Al Hindiyah district center, and Al Hur district center. The patient’s economic, social, cultural, and medical characteristics were obtained from the field study which showed that the highest impact on the patient was the economic, educational. And environmental levels. The results showed that the people of low income are more affected by diabetes while those of high income are more affected by blood pressure rise; as well, those of the primary educational level are more affected by chronic diseases specially diabetes. It was shown that the civil environment is the infection focus of these diseases in comparison with the rural environment; that’s why life in city shorter than countryside.
The relation between changes and disease type were identified by the statistical formula ” the Chi-square test “. in addition, it was appeared that there is a difference in the environmental changes impact in affecting with chronic disease especially when personal features on genetics which has direct impact in affecting gathered with features of the indirect behavioral ones as type of nutrition and obesity that increase infection possibility in these diseases:
Medical geography is a recent tackling subject in the international geographical studies in general and in the Arabic geographical studies in particular, for the medical geography is basically interested in the spatial analysis for the health and disease which does not dig deep in the medical specializations more than in what enrich the geographical analysis, distribution of the sick phenomenon, and medical care items.
Due to the spread the chronic diseases internationally with increase of patients of diabetes and blood pressure in general and on Iraqi level in specific. The researcher attempted to study these two diseases after knowing statistics of Kerbala province concerning the highly spread of chronic diseases in the province. The current study is an attempt to study chronic diseases represented by diabetes and blood pressure according to the available data in records of primary healthcare centers and popular medical clinics. After knowing the problem size and its hypotheses, the study aim was limited. The researcher logically concentrated on some of the natural and human features such as the area climate features, the demographic changes, sanitary services, and its connection with the.The most important thing that the study reached, through patients’ records, that there is an increase in the patients number suffering from chronic diseases represented by diabetes and blood pressure due to what is available data in the sanitary institutions in the study area. This increase is ascendant number of persons to the sanitary institutions reached to 13603 od diabetic patients and 45740 of blood pressure patients. These numbers are considered the highest among the real registered in the popular medical clinics which is counted 5251 of diabetic patients and 1205 of blood pressure patients. In addition, number of female patients is more than the male patients, and the reverse concerning the registered patients that is the female patients is more than the male ones. The highest record was in the two years 2019 and 2020, if compared with previous years. Spreading of diabetes included all age categories, while blood pressure concentrated in the age categories ranged from 20 to 74.