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Citation

Soroush M, Ganjparvar Z, Mousavi B. Arch. Iran. Med. 2020; 23(Suppl 1): S33-S37.

Affiliation

Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center (JMERC), Tehran, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Academy of Medical Sciences of I.R. Iran)

DOI

10.34172/aim.2020.s7

PMID

32349506

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Limited studies have reported epidemiologic data on the impact of Iran-Iraq war. This study examines the war casualties for both combatants and civilians on Iranians at national level.

METHODS: Databases of Veterans and Martyrs Affair Foundation (VMAF), Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center (JMERC) and Ministry of Health were used to collect the data. The prevalence of injuries for both civilians and combatants was presented. Casualties were studied based on conventional and unconventional weapons attacks (1980-2018), separately.

RESULTS: The Iran-Iraq war led to 183623 lost lives, 554990 injured and 40240 captured. The mean length of captivity was 45.7 months (1 month-19 years) and 2.7% (n = 575) died in captivity. There were 1439180 war related injuries recorded in databanks, mostly affecting men (98.4%). About 1439180 injuries were recorded, most of them related to conventional weapons (938928 [65.24%]). Remaining artillery and mortar fragmentation in the body (39.5%, n = 371236), psychological disorders (15.9%, n = 228944), and exposure to chemical weapons (11%, n = 158817) were the most prevalent war-related injuries.

CONCLUSION: Human casualties of the Iran-Iraq war on the Iranian side and the health care system are huge even after more than three decades.

© 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


Language: en

Keywords

Casualties; Chemical warfare agents; Health; Weapons of mass destruction

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