MOEN F. A. AL-ALAWACHI AND SHARIF F. A. AL- ALAWACHI
Abstract
Feeling headache, anxiety, boredom, confusion, nervous behavior, poor performance of most students, were observed during the classroom time. A research was done via designing aquantitative questionnaire to detect the key reasons of the mentioned symptoms, and followed by a survey to acquire population insights who are living at or near mobile towers about the topic in Babil province-Iraq. It was mentioned that long screen time for communication or surfing internet as a main reason by 63% the respondents, and various diseases were discovered among population living close to the mobile networks towers after setting up them. It was concluded by this research that a risky relationship (direct or indirect) between the addiction on smartphone; the radiation of mobile network towers and the human health, particularly the youngstersââ¬â¢ mental abilities. The necessity for further studies about the risks at human health caused by the electromagnetic fields emitted by smartphones and their broadcasting stations was recommended by this research.