Social and Economic Transformations in the Egyptian Society And the change in the Pattern of Death: A Field Study

This research aims to identify the causes of changing diseases map in Egypt not as due to certain nature, but presumably it is linked to economic and social policies that affect their health and that cause the suffering of the people with the ignorance of the extreme requirements of public health , as well as activating the production processes and  political decisions which allow polluted places, and the use of fertilizers carcinogens and chemical pesticides in agriculture and that these practices are in turn influenced formulations of economic and government policies , it is not enough to look at the disease as a case of clinical isolation but must be seen in the context of the community of the patient and on the back of health policy and social systems and economic and political surrounding it.
The research spots light on the prevailing systems and their inability to account for the large pollution and its consequences.
And this urge us to concentrate about the disease and the relationship between the disease and pattern social, political and economic by taking a sample of recent deaths and old to see the change in the pattern of the disease that causes death and detection of causes of death in the light of it relates to the factors of building a family of the deceased and it relates to formulations of social, economic and governmental policies in the prevailing systems.
This study adopted the way of (verbal autopsy) verbal autopsy (VA) and this is a way to identify the reasons for the deaths of individuals without relying on the vital registration system and anatomy of verbal consists of the interview using a questionnaire to collect information about the disease, and social characteristics of the person who died from an individual familiar with deceased and this way help to close the significant gaps in information about the cause of death .