The impact of dust storms on human healthIn Tuz Khurmatu

Abstract

The problem of dust storms has received great attention at the present time because their recurrence clearly affects human health in the study area. From this standpoint, the idea of this research was centered and characterized by (the impact of dust storms on Human health). The main objective of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of dust storms and their impact on health in the study area when the phenomenon of dust storms occurs repeatedly. During the researcher’s field visit to the study area, she visited a number of respiratory, ophthalmology, nose and throat doctors, and sought their opinions on the subject of the impact of dust storms on human health. The doctors pointed out the symptoms of respiratory system diseases such as asthma, chest allergies, sore throat diseases and eye diseases as a result of exposure to People for dust storms. This research paper also presented methods of preventing infection with these diseases.

The research concluded that the study area is one of the areas exposed to the phenomenon of dust storms. The study also showed that dust storms have a direct and indirect impact on human health. One of the most prominent diseases that afflict the region's residents during dust storms is asthma, as it reached 45% in the young group, 39% in the middle-aged group, and 50% in the elderly group, of the total number of diseases affect the study area residents during dust storms. The paper confirms that the responsible authorities should establish green belts around cities and plant evergreen trees to reduce the dust storms’ effects on human health then create solutions to reduce the problem spread.