Quality of life and subjective social status after five years of Mount Sinabung eruptions: Disaster management and current sources of inequality in displaced, remaining and relocated communities

This study provides a focused overview of the literature specific to the health and wellbeing impact of volcanic eruptions in Indonesia. The authors' aim is to determine whether variations in the disaster experiences and management of groups are connected with newly identified quality of life differences. The research focuses on the multidimensional quality of life in an Indonesian sample.

The research has led to the following conclusions, among others. It:

• has identified health differences between groups according to their disaster management;
• demonstrated the value of going beyond a focus on subjective well-being in disaster and post-disaster contexts;
• examined social and environmental differences between groups that might be the basis for felt perceptions of relative individual and, potentially, group deprivation;
• demonstrated the value of using a multidimensional Quality of Life measure in disaster contexts to highlight differences in and potential sources of inequality;
• provided new evidence of the limitations of social capital, social identity theories and social cure approaches to address features of environmental Quality of Life.