Climate Change in the Arctic : The Need for a Broader Gender Perspective in Data Collection

Climate change in the Arctic affects both environmental, animal, and human health, as well as human wellbeing and societal development. Women and men, and girls and boys are affected differently. Sex-disaggregated data collection is increasingly carried out as a routine in human health research and...

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Published in:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Main Authors: Rautio, Arja, Kukarenko, Natalia, Nilsson, Lena Maria, Evengård, Birgitta
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Arktiskt centrum vid Umeå universitet (Arcum) 2021
Subjects:
gender
Arctic
health
policy
human rights
quality
economic benefits
Public Health
Global Health
Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Folkhälsovetenskap
global hälsa
socialmedicin och epidemiologi
Climate change
Human health
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-180169
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020628
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Summary:Climate change in the Arctic affects both environmental, animal, and human health, as well as human wellbeing and societal development. Women and men, and girls and boys are affected differently. Sex-disaggregated data collection is increasingly carried out as a routine in human health research and in healthcare analysis. This study involved a literature review and used a case study design to analyze gender differences in the roles and responsibilities of men and women residing in the Arctic. The theoretical background for gender-analysis is here described together with examples from the Russian Arctic and a literature search. We conclude that a broader gender-analysis of sex-disaggregated data followed by actions is a question of human rights and also of economic benefits for societies at large and of the quality of services as in the health care.

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