Spatial variation of health waste - chronic diseases as a sample -for young people In the districts of Adhamiya and Karkh for the years 2013 and 2020

Abstract

The research aims to identify the importance and seriousness of one of the forms of health waste, namely, chronic diseases that afflict young people and affect their life path according to the qualitative, age and environmental structure in the districts of Adhamiya and Karkh. spatial relationships.

The research reached a set of results, the most important of which is the existence of a discrepancy in the volume of waste at the level of administrative units for the years 2013 and 2020, as the wastage rate reached (63.96) and (88.48) respectively, for every 100,000 children under the age of 15 years, and Al-Fahama district recorded the highest wastage rate For the year 2013, it amounted to (72.90), while Al-Mamoun district had the highest waste rate for the year 2020, which amounted to (95.90), and the research also found a rise in the rates of male children with chronic diseases compared to females, so the number of infected males for the two research years reached (55.09%) and (55.46%) over respectively, while the relative importance of afflicted females reached (44.91%) and (44.54%), respectively, for the years 2013 and 2020, and diabetes came first in the number of affected children for the year 2020, with a relative importance of (27.43%).