Caring for disaster victims: how important is socioeconomic status in geohazards?

Geohazards cause loss and dynamic community recovery in space and time. Socioeconomic status was evaluated based on household income and educational level. This study aims to examine the importance of knowing the communities’ socioeconomic status in geohazards and provide suggestions for solutions that policymakers should take in solving problems related to socioeconomic status in geohazards. To conduct a literature review, we conducted some steps: 1) designing the review, 2) conducting the review, 3) analyzing, and 4) writing the review. It is essential to learn the communities’ socioeconomic status in geohazards because poor people with low education levels tend to risk posed by geohazards more than middle-class families because of their limitation in understanding the information related to geohazards, families that live in a subsistence economy may struggle to adapt when loss and damage occur to the home. They have no savings, and sometimes insurance does not offer services to underprivileged communities, outcasts, and residents of remote places in geohazards. It is essential that the government should focus more on vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, who lack the education to inform about geohazards quickly and guarantee insurance for the poor to quickly recover from the effects of geohazards.