Health in Iraq

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Health in Iraq refers to the country's public healthcare system and the overall health of the country's population.

Health indicators deteriorated during the 1990s. In the late 1990s, Iraq's infant mortality rates more than doubled.[2] Because treatment and diagnosis of cancer and diabetes decreased in the 1990s, complications and deaths resulting from those diseases increased drastically in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[2]

The

Millennium development goals
number 4 and 5 by 2015.

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[4] finds that Iraq is fulfilling 75.0% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.[5] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Iraq achieves 93.1% of what is expected based on its current income.[5] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 86.4% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.[5] Iraq falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 45.4% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.[5]

History

Before Gulf War

Iraq used the income from oil resources, which accounted for the major part of its

GDP to build a modern and solid health care system. Health services were free and available for the majority of the population. The country had a good sanitary infrastructure and safe water supply to almost all people in urban areas and the majority in rural areas.[6]

Indicator 1960 1970 1990[7]
Crude death rate
 17.5 11.7 6.9
Crude birth rate
 42.1 45.6 37.7
Life expectancy at birth
 48.0 58.2 68.3
Infant mortality rates 131.7 81.5 42.3
Under-five mortality rate 195.7 115 54.1

After Gulf War

After the

oil for food programme which allowed the country to import humanitarian supplies and equipment. The programme resulted in a modest recover in water and electricity supply, sanitation and health services.[8]

Indicator 1991 2000 2010 2015[7]
Crude death rate
 6.6 5.5 5.5 5.1
Crude birth rate
 37.5 35.6 35.5 34.2
Life expectancy at birth
 66.8 69.1 68.4 69.5
Infant mortality rates 41.6 35.2 30.0 26.5
Under-five mortality rate 53 44.7 36.6 32
Maternal mortality ratio -- 290 60 35

health indicators

Basic statistics

Indicators Statistics year[9]
population (thousands) 41190 2021
Population aged under 15 (%) 40 2013
Population aged over 60 (%) 5 2013
Median age 20 2013
Population living in urban areas (%) 69 2013
Total fertility rate (per woman) 4.0 2013
Number of live births (thousands) 1052.2 2013
Number of deaths (thousands) 162.7 2013
Birth registration coverage (%) 99 2011
Cause-of-death registration coverage (%) 65 2008
Gross national income per capita (PPP int $) 15220 2013
WHO region Eastern Mediterranean 2013
World Bank income classification Upper middle 2013

Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy in Iraq

In 2015 the

morbidity and disability.[10]

Millennium Development Goals (Md Gs)

Indicators Baseline statistics at 1990 for the first 2 and at 2000 for the last 3 Latest statistics 2013 for the first 3 & 2012 for the last 2
Under-five mortality rate (per 1000 live births) 53 34
Maternal mortality ratio(per 100 000 live births 110 67
Deaths due to
AIDS
(per 100 000		 0.0 0.0
Deaths due to malaria (per 100 000 population 0.0 0.0
Deaths due to tuberculosis among HIV-negative people (per 100 000) 3.8 2.3

In the 1960s, Iraq was "one of the best countries in which to be a child" according to the UNICEF statistics. At the same time in 1981, Iraq had the 2nd lowest Infant Mortality Rate worldwide. In the late 1990s, Iraq's under-five mortality rates have dropped by approximately 50% - from 44.8 deaths per 1000 live births in 2000 to 34.4 in 2012.[11][12]

Child mortality in Iraq

Thus

Millennium Development Goal
number four. Iraq's health services are struggling to regain lost momentum after decades of war, sanctions, and occupation. Although there is renewed progress across all sectors of child development, substantial work is still needed to achieve national targets and global goals.

according to WHO, Iraq: Quality of Care 2018 Analysis, infection measure control increased 14-15%[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Aziz, C. Struggling to rebuild Iraq's Health-care System. The Lancet 2003;362(9392):1288-1289.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Iraq country profile Archived 2010-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (August 2006). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Webster, Paul C (2011). Iraq's Health System yet to Heal from Ravages of War. The Lancet 378(9794): 863-866
  4. ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  5. ^ a b c d "Iraq - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  6. ^ Frankish, Helen. Health of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance; The Lancent 2003 Feb 22; 361
  7. ^ a b "Mortality rate, under-5 (Per 1,000 live births) - Country Comparison".
  8. ^ Frankish, Helen. Health of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. The Lancet 2003;361
  9. ^ "المؤشرات الديمغرافية والسكانية - الجهاز المركزي للاحصاء". cosit.gov.iq. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  10. ^ "Iraq Country Overview | World Health Organization".
  11. ^ "Under-fine Mortaliy Rates". gapminder.org.
  12. ^ "Under-five Mortality Rates". UNICEF.
  13. ISSN 2522-7386
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