Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol
Introduction Climate change may affect human health due to various mechanisms including overexposure to environmental pollution or dispersed particles. Lake Urmia (LU) drying in recent years has turned into a crisis with particle distribution as its main manifest. It is told that this crisis may aff...
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| author | Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani Mostafa Farahbakhsh Faramarz Pourasghar Iraj Mohebbi Mortaza Saadatkhah Behrouz Sari Sarraf Ommolbanin Abbasnezhad Gholamhassan Mohammadi Rasoul EntezarMahdi |
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| description | Introduction Climate change may affect human health due to various mechanisms including overexposure to environmental pollution or dispersed particles. Lake Urmia (LU) drying in recent years has turned into a crisis with particle distribution as its main manifest. It is told that this crisis may affect the health of neighbouring residents. In this paper, we elaborate on a research protocol developed to assess the potential health consequences of LU drying (LUD) by investigating the distribution of physical and mental health conditions/disorders among residents of LU’s surrounding provinces with different exposure levels to LUD outcomes.Methods and analysis The target population of this study is the residents of the LU basin from East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran. A total of 803 households and 2783 people are studied in 86 clusters. Cluster sampling is applied. The weighting of the samples is based on a satellite map of the density of suspended particles such that people living in areas with higher risk have a higher chance of selection. Various types of measurements are done in three major groups including self-reported health, clinical interview/examination and paraclinical assays.Ethics and dissemination In this project, all procedures are in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Moreover, an informed consent letter is obtained from all participants included in the study. The results from this study will be disseminated in international journals and implemented in the primary care guidelines and national policy documents on managing the potential health consequences of LUD. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-99513d8996b6425bb87d10dbdb768b0d2025-08-20T03:40:54ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552024-06-0114610.1136/bmjopen-2022-070314Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocolHomayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani0Mostafa Farahbakhsh1Faramarz Pourasghar2Iraj Mohebbi3Mortaza Saadatkhah4Behrouz Sari Sarraf5Ommolbanin Abbasnezhad6Gholamhassan Mohammadi7Rasoul EntezarMahdi81 Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran3 Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran7 Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran5 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran2 Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran4 Faculty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran1 Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran6 I. R. of Iranian Meteorological Organization, Tabriz, Iran5 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, IranIntroduction Climate change may affect human health due to various mechanisms including overexposure to environmental pollution or dispersed particles. Lake Urmia (LU) drying in recent years has turned into a crisis with particle distribution as its main manifest. It is told that this crisis may affect the health of neighbouring residents. In this paper, we elaborate on a research protocol developed to assess the potential health consequences of LU drying (LUD) by investigating the distribution of physical and mental health conditions/disorders among residents of LU’s surrounding provinces with different exposure levels to LUD outcomes.Methods and analysis The target population of this study is the residents of the LU basin from East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran. A total of 803 households and 2783 people are studied in 86 clusters. Cluster sampling is applied. The weighting of the samples is based on a satellite map of the density of suspended particles such that people living in areas with higher risk have a higher chance of selection. Various types of measurements are done in three major groups including self-reported health, clinical interview/examination and paraclinical assays.Ethics and dissemination In this project, all procedures are in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Moreover, an informed consent letter is obtained from all participants included in the study. The results from this study will be disseminated in international journals and implemented in the primary care guidelines and national policy documents on managing the potential health consequences of LUD.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6/e070314.full |
| spellingShingle | Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani Mostafa Farahbakhsh Faramarz Pourasghar Iraj Mohebbi Mortaza Saadatkhah Behrouz Sari Sarraf Ommolbanin Abbasnezhad Gholamhassan Mohammadi Rasoul EntezarMahdi Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol BMJ Open |
| title | Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol |
| title_full | Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol |
| title_fullStr | Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol |
| title_short | Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol |
| title_sort | health consequences of the urmia lake crisis the baseline study protocol |
| url | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6/e070314.full |
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