Climate Change Health and Women

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Healthcare
4/10/2019

HEALTHCARE
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Climate change health and women
Introduction
The assignment is the brief discussion on the assessment of the climate change and the
resulting impact on the health and wellbeing of women. The health outcomes of women as
affected or influenced by the changes in climatic conditions will be studied especially in
context to Australia. The discussion is the literature review of the topic, which will bring
positive or negative effects on the health outcomes.
The concept of climate change refers to the alteration of the world’s weather systems due to
warmer temperatures brought about any human activity. Sorensen et al (2018) stated about
the impacts of climate change on people, or women as increased exposure to heat, poor air
quality, extreme weather events or calamities, and altered vector borne disease affects health.
these aspects of change in climate reduces the high quality of the water quality and the food
security that ultimately affects women’s health. For an instance, the authors mentioned that
women giving birth to a child during the period of disasters may lead to some major issues.
These may consist of the increase in complications including preeclampsia, bleeding and low
birthweight infant. These are the outcomes of their poor psychological and phsycial health
due to the negative changes in the climate or weather. The problem of food insecurity is
further linked to the aspect of nutritional deficiencies, which creates negative influence on the
health of women especially, in the later years of life (Filardo et al., 2016).
In context to the issue or topic, it has analysed that Victoria’s major population lives within
1502 kilometres of the coast. Under this, rising levels of sea and storm surges may affect or
cause increased risk of flooding and erosion, which leads to loss of biodiversity, and
ecosystem.