Cengizhan SEZGİ, Halide KAYA, Hıdır SARI, Hatice ŞEN, Kerim EZGİN, Abdurrahman ŞENYİĞİT, Abdurrahman ABAKAY, Özlem ABAKAY, Abdullah Çetin TANRIKULU

Evaluatıon of the use of envıronmental asbestos ın Diyarbakır

Environmental asbestos exposure and asbestosrelated diseases are common in Diyarbakır. We aimed to investigate, whether environmental asbestos exposure ongoing in Diyarbakır or not, used for which purposes if this still in usage and the manner of supplying in this study.A questionnaire was made for this study between January 2011-April 2011 in the 187 village from Ergani, Cermik, Dicle, Cungus and Hani districts that are asbestose usage is known in Diyarbakır city.Rates of asbestos usage history were 84% in Ergani, 70% in Cermik, 66% in Cungus, 66% in Hani and 58% in Dicle. The proportion of these villages that still continue to asbestos usage were 66% in Hani, 54% in Dicle, 52% in Ergani, 50% in Çüngüş and 44% in Çermik.Using pattern was only on molasses making in villages from Cermik and Cungus.But the other villages were using asbestos for plastering walls between molasses making.The d ata of this study has revealed that asbestos exposure stil continues in Diyarbakır city.For this reason planning and implementation of training activities about the harms of asbestos is required for community awareness especially in rural areas.

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