Geographic Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Social Well-Being and Health Conditions of the Residents Living Around Wetlands/Lakes of Srinagar City, Kashmir (India)

Abstract

Human well-being is generally considered as a unifying concept and varying characteristics of both objective and subjective factors which constitute health and quality of life. Stiglitz et al. (2010) in its report titled “Commissions of the measurement of economic performances and social wellbeing” identified eight key dimensions that need to be taken into account while defining human well-being. Some of the important key dimensions are income, health, education, economic activities, and environment. In this direction, human well-being indices like Happy Planned Index (HPI), Human Development Index (HDI), Gross National Happiness, Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI), and Sustainable Society Index (SSI) are used by both the developed and developing societies to measure the level of human well-being. Statistical techniques are used in attaining desirable results. The present study on Kashmir has been carried out considering the above factors like geographic environment, income status, economic activities, housing pattern, and health profile (morbidity). The morbidity pattern has been calculated to project inequalities in the well-being of a particular section of people (boatmen) by calculating DALY to measure the level of well-being.