Public Health Vulnerability Assessment for Floods in Dimla, Bangladesh, 2019

Dimla Upazila in Nilphamari, Bangladesh, a region highly vulnerable to floods, is the focus of this public health vulnerability assessment dataset. The data was collected in 2019 by author Nafisa Nuari Islam and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset is stored in an XLS file with a size of 515.0 KB.

Use Cases

• Assessing community-level public health vulnerability based on flood exposure data.
• Modeling flood risk impacts on health systems using geographic and vulnerability indicators.
• Informing disaster preparedness and response planning for highly vulnerable regions.
• Conducting comparative studies on flood-related health vulnerabilities in Bangladesh.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific, highly vulnerable geographic area (Dimla Upazila, Bangladesh).
• Dataset has a clear temporal context, collected in 2019.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data were collected in 2019, likely via field surveys or assessments.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 20:17:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dimla Upazila, Nilphamari, Bangladesh