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dc.contributor.authorMazumdar, Sumit
dc.contributor.authorMazumdar, Papiya Guha
dc.contributor.authorKanjilal, Barun
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Prashant Kumar
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T14:43:34Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T14:43:34Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-29
dc.identifier.citationMazumdar S, Mazumdar PG, Kanjilal B, Singh PK (2014) Multiple Shocks, Coping and Welfare Consequences: Natural Disasters and Health Shocks in the Indian Sundarbans. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105427. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105427en_GB
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/5432
dc.description.abstractBackground: Based on a household survey in Indian Sundarbans hit by tropical cyclone Aila in May 2009, this study tests for evidence and argues that health and climatic shocks are essentially linked forming a continuum and with exposure to a marginal one, coping mechanisms and welfare outcomes triggered in the response is significantly affected. Data & Methods: The data for this study is based on a cross-sectional household survey carried out during June 2010. The survey was aimed to assess the impact of cyclone Aila on households and consequent coping mechanisms in three of the worst-affected blocks (a sub-district administrative unit), viz. Hingalganj, Gosaba and Patharpratima. The survey covered 809 individuals from 179 households, cross cutting age and gender. A separate module on health-seeking behaviour serves as the information source of health shocks defined as illness episodes (ambulatory or hospitalized) experienced by household members. Key findings: Finding reveals that over half of the households (54%) consider that Aila has dealt a high, damaging impact on their household assets. Result further shows deterioration of health status in the period following the incidence of Aila. Finding suggests having suffered multiple shocks increases the number of adverse welfare outcomes by 55%. Whereas, suffering either from the climatic shock (33%) or the health shock (25%) alone increases such risks by a much lesser extent. The multiple-shock households face a significantly higher degree of difficulty to finance expenses arising out of health shocks, as opposed to their counterparts facing only the health shock. Further, these households are more likely to finance the expenses through informal loans and credit from acquaintances or moneylenders. Conclusion: This paper presented empirical evidence on how natural and health shocks mutually reinforce their resultant impact, making coping increasingly difficult and present significant risks of welfare loss, having short as well as long-run development manifestations.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipDFIDen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPLoSen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_GB
dc.subjectHealthen_GB
dc.titleMultiple Shocks, Coping and Welfare Consequences: Natural Disasters and Health Shocks in the Indian Sundarbansen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.rights.holder© 2014 Mazumdar et al.en_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105427en_GB


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