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

• 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

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.