Newborns protected against tetanus (%)_

Event_Log

1. 011980Iran-Iraq War beginsAssociation

   Eight-year war (1980-1988) imposes massive fiscal costs, disrupts oil exports, and entrenches a rationing/coupon system for basic goods.

   Why this link: Newborn tetanus protection rose steadily from just 1% (1980) to 80% (1991) even as the country fought an eight-year war with Iraq -- the Islamic Republic's rural Primary Health Care network (Behvarz health houses, built out through the 1980s) kept extending basic immunization coverage through the same years the war was destroying infrastructure and diverting resources elsewhere. This row is included as a deliberate non-obvious finding: the war's disruption is NOT visible anywhere in this series.

   Caveat: This project's timeline has no dated row for the Primary Health Care network's own rollout (a genuine gap -- the rural health-house program is well documented in public-health literature but not yet a discrete entry in timeline/iran.csv), so the war-begins date is used only as a chronological anchor for the period over which this rise occurred, not as a claimed cause; direction is coded positive because vaccination coverage rose, not because the war itself helped.

   Lag: gradual, across the entire war (1980-1988)Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica