Preparation of Social Vulnerability Index of Malaria using MCDA technique in West Bengal, India
| Author(s) | : | Sandip Tripathy, Dr. Abhisek Chakrabarty |
| Institution | : | (Research Scholar, Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vidyasagar University, India) |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 12 — December 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 786-793 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Malaria is a vector borne disease, generally found in humid and high temperature induced areas. India is notexceptional for the spreading of malaria. Although, most of the cases are found in eastern and north eastern part ofIndia. West Bengal has a consistent malaria incidence record since last decade. As, modern vector control equipmentand medicines made the situation near to good, but some concentration of incidence are still active on some points ofwest Bengal. Here the study, not only identifies the zone active for malaria incidence, but also seeks the underlying socialreason that made the incidence pattern more viable to some specific area. With the help of PCA, some social variablesare taken and used to show incidence pattern from the viewpoint of three basic vulnerability sub-indices, susceptibility,resilience and adaptive capacity. Then composite scores also have been taken for consideration. At last, indices outputhas been validated under the circumstances of death causing malaria case
Sandip Tripathy, Dr. Abhisek Chakrabarty, “Preparation of Social Vulnerability Index of Malaria using MCDA technique in West Bengal, India”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 12, pp. 786-793, December 2017.
