The impact of natural disasters on child health and investments in rural India.

ABSTRACT: There is growing concern that climate change will lead to more frequent natural disasters that may adversely affect short- and long-term health outcomes in developing countries. Prior research has primarily focused on the impact of single, large disaster events but very little is known about how small and moderate disasters, which are more typical, affect population health. In this paper, we present one of the first investigations of the impact of small and moderate disasters on childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining household data on over 80,000 children from three waves of the Indian National Family and Health Survey with an international database of natural disasters (EM-DAT). We find that exposure to a natural disaster in the past month increases the likel

SUBMITTER: Datar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3544338 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature