VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN'S HEALTH TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS: A STUDY ON SUB-HILLY REGION OF BANGLADESH (original) (raw)

Climate change has already been predicted to have serious impacts on physical and socioeconomic environment including human health which is disproportionately affecting the women. The objective of this study is to examine the climate change patterns and investigate the vulnerability of women's health to climate change in Kamalganj Upazilla, a sub hilly region of Bangladesh. Both primary and secondary data have been used for this study. The findings of this study reveal the indirect health impacts of climate change and represent the interrelationship of climate change with physiographic diversity and socioeconomic conditions. The extension of summer season, irregular rainfall and increasing of temperature and decreasing the duration of winter season are found in this study. As the temperature is increasing, rainfall becomes irregular; hence, the women's health vulnerability to climate change impacts increases. People are becoming more vulnerable to temperature variability related diseases such as heat extortion, heat stroke, viral fever etc. followed by water borne disease due to lack of adaptation to temperature change. It also reveals that poor women groups are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts.

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