Field survey on health and environment condition of Al-Shaha village, Abo Graib, Baghdad

A field survey on health and environment condition of AL-Shaha village - Abo Graib -Baghdad was carried out 87% of the houses were built from rocks and blocks of cement. All have lavatories but only 40% of them have purified thinking water although it was not sufficient. 43.5% of people in the village were illitrate, 18.7% of them were farm workers. Clinical examination of these people showed that 55.1% were healthy; 87.7% of children below six years were healthy but 98.7% of children were under-fed. Most of the children were vaccinated. Among women 83.1% of them had a natural normal last labour, but 21.8% of these mothers complained of anemia during last pregnancy Recommendations are given