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Climatic hazards, health and poverty: exploring the connections in Vietnam
Few, Roger Tran, Pham Gia
Few, Roger
Tran, Pham Gia
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Vietnam is highly prone to climatic hazards, including extreme weather events and marked seasonal changes. Climatic hazards have wide-ranging implications for human health, but in most hazard-prone countries there has been little household level research on health risks. Drawing on the results of qualitative research in the Central Provinces and the Mekong Delta, this paper is one of the first empirical studies to examine how the social dimensions of vulnerability come into play in the generation of health outcomes associated with hazards. It explores particularly how aspects of economic livelihood, physical location, education and protective behaviour contribute to social differentiation in exposure and susceptibility, as well as shape people’s capability to avoid adverse health impacts. These aspects were closely linked with, but not solely determined by, income-poverty. Understanding of risks to health in low-income settings requires careful analysis of this complex shaping of vulnerability. It also requires recognition that health protection for the poor may be articulated more in terms of protection of wider livelihood assets than preventive health actions per se.
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2010
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