Preparation of Social Vulnerability Index of Malaria using MCDA technique in West Bengal, India

Abstract

Malaria is a vector borne disease, generally found in humid and high temperature induced areas. India is not
exceptional for the spreading of malaria. Although, most of the cases are found in eastern and north eastern part of
India. West Bengal has a consistent malaria incidence record since last decade. As, modern vector control equipment
and medicines made the situation near to good, but some concentration of incidence are still active on some points of
west Bengal. Here the study, not only identifies the zone active for malaria incidence, but also seeks the underlying social
reason that made the incidence pattern more viable to some specific area. With the help of PCA, some social variables
are 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 output
has been validated under the circumstances of death causing malaria case