• Dr. Bikash Bage
• Dr. Padi Hana

Today the urban mapping and vulnerability assessment are necessary for government policy framing and programme implementation. The present study aims at addressing the health issues faced by the selected population through urban mapping of the area. Once the mapping is done, the analytical framework based on the findings has been described in the work. The study has described the criteria for mapping urban vulnerability, focusing on the component of health risk. The study is based on the framework of the case-study research and has included the impacts of a specific hazard risk of the health of the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR)of Arunachal Pradesh. The study also proposes a critical framework that would in the future address the planning methods toward an effective and efficient strategy to the population of the vulnerable area. The efforts have been made towards understanding the concept of risk combined with hazard, vulnerability, and exposure to diseases. Definition wise vulnerability is the characteristics of an individual or a group of individuals and their condition that categorise their ability to anticipate, to cope up with, to resist, and build resilience to the consequence of any form of risk of hazard. This work is also dependent on the reviews and focuses on the health hazard due to natural and manmade disasters. A health hazard is determined by socioeconomic, physical location and ecological processes, which are responsible factors of the community to become more prone to epidemics. These processes are further stimulated by factors like Poverty, type of daily occupation, exclusion, marginalization and unequal distribution of services and health facilities. Due to equitable chances in life poor and marginalized sections of the society may be compelled to settle in hazardous areas. To cope with the matter and to have sustainable solutions an insight on the assessment of the vulnerability of the community is inevitable. There is a need of convergence of efforts of social scientists and public health specialists so as understand the grassroots issues and manage the disastrous conditions especially on health needs. Such local understanding will enable the community to reaffirm the sustenance and to have resilience on expected health matters.

Vulnerability, Health Hazard Assessment, Mapping, Strategic planning.

"Vulnerability Assessment & Urban Mapping: A Sociological Analysis of Itanagar Capital Region, Arunachal Pradesh, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.410-422, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905X49.pdf

"Vulnerability Assessment & Urban Mapping: A Sociological Analysis of Itanagar Capital Region, Arunachal Pradesh, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp410-422, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905X49.pdf