Changing Climate Patterns and Women Health: An Empirical Analysis of District Rawalpindi Pakistan

Tahseen Ajaz and Muhammad Majeed
Additional contact information
Tahseen Ajaz: PhD Scholar, Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Global Social Sciences Review, 2018, vol. 3, issue 4, 320-342

Abstract: Climate change, the greatest environmental challenge of current era, affects human health badly. Natural hazards such as storms, droughts, excessive rains, floods, droughts and increasing temperature always threaten human health. South Asian rural women bear more household responsibilities than men in terms of fetching water and burning biomass fuel for cooking and heating. To obtain these resources women have to go out and are more exposed to outdoor environment and the increased exposure make them more amenable to the effects of changing climatic and weather patterns. The objective of this study is to document women health impacts under climate change in District Rawalpindi, Pakistan. We find that climate change increases the incidence of diseases which affect physical health. In developing countries, extreme weather patterns disproportionally affect vulnerable population like women, children and others bear burden of illness. Pakistan also faces heat waves fluctuation during summer and extreme rainfall pattern which have severe effect on overall health of individuals. We conclude that climatic changes (increasing heat intensity, dry spells, unusual rains and others) affect women health badly. The state has to improve our climate by offering effective policies. This may include reforestation, plantation in and outside homes and environmental friendly policies like renewable energy that is a shift from coal and oil investing energy projects. Increase of green areas within urban localities is also needed.

Keywords: Climate Change; Weather Conditions; Physical health; Womens Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://gssrjournal.com/jadmin/Auther/31rvIolA2LALJouq9hkR/R0E2sIzjmf.pdf (application/pdf)
http://www.gssrjournal.com/issue/Changing-Climate- ... -Rawalpindi-Pakistan (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gss:journl:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:320-342

DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).21

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Global Social Sciences Review from Humanity Only
Bibliographic data for series maintained by M Imran Khan ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).