Impacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic: affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of India

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cg.coverage.countryIndiaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen
cg.coverage.subregionRajasthanen
cg.coverage.subregionGujaraten
cg.coverage.subregionAndhra Pradeshen
cg.coverage.subregionKarnatakaen
cg.coverage.subregionKeralaen
cg.coverage.subregionTamil Naduen
cg.coverage.subregionWest Bengalen
cg.coverage.subregionNadia Districten
cg.coverage.subregionHaryanaen
cg.coverage.subregionOrissaen
cg.coverage.subregionPunjaben
cg.coverage.subregionUttar Pradeshen
cg.creator.identifierTushaar Shah: 0000-0002-0565-8464en
dc.contributor.authorIndu, Rajnarayanen
dc.contributor.authorKrishnan, Sunderrajanen
dc.contributor.authorShah, Tushaaren
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T14:48:32Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-13T14:48:32Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/40843
dc.titleImpacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic: affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of Indiaen
dcterms.abstractIn India, high fluoride concentration in groundwater (greater than 1 mg/l) is widespread in the arid to semi-arid western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat and in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A field research study conducted at six areas severely affected by fluorosis shows that affordability of safer drinking water is related to higher income level, and that the severity of fluorosis affliction is higher for lower income levels. The cost incurred on medicines and loss of wages is a significant proportion of the earnings and has a general debilitating impact on the affected families. As compared with fluorosis, the skin afflictions of arsenicosis carry greater social stigma and patients incur higher costs. In Nadia district of West Bengal, the impacts of arsenic contamination are more severe with increasing age. Cumulatively, over the entire afflicted population, both fluoride and arsenic contamination have a high cost on society and addressing the problem would require more attention from government agencies and society apart from individual awareness.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIndu, Rajnarayan; Krishnan, Sunderrajan; Shah, Tushaar. 2007. Impacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic: affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of India. International Journal of Rural Management, 3(1): 69-93.en
dcterms.issued2007en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.subjectgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectwater qualityen
dcterms.subjectwater pollutionen
dcterms.subjectdrinking wateren
dcterms.subjectfluoridesen
dcterms.subjectarsenicen
dcterms.subjectpoisoningen
dcterms.subjectdiseasesen
dcterms.subjectpublic healthen
dcterms.subjectcostsen
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen

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