Apurba Sarkar|Pradip Chouhan
COVID-19: District level vulnerability assessment in India
University of Gour Banga|University of Gour Banga
covid19 pandemic brought threatening challenge world well indian society economy india become public health disaster intensity increasing continuously disaster risk reduction capacity building covid19 pandemic understanding relationship socioenvironmental conditions pandemic necessary objective present work construct socioenvironmental vulnerability index potential risk community spread covid19 using socioeconomic environmental variablesin crosssectional study principal component analyses used drive soevi 4 uncorrelated subindex extracted 16 subindicators reflects 59 variance aggregation 4 subindex done obtain final vulnerability indexresults show spatial variability vulnerability based environmental socioeconomic conditions districts north central india found vulnerable south india statistical significance tested using regression analysis positive relation found vulnerability index confirmed active casesthe vulnerability index highlighted environmentaly socioeconomicallybackward districts areas suffer critical problems covid19 pandemic socioenvironmental problem