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

Arja Rautio, Natalia Kukarenko, Lena Maria Nilsson and Birgitta Evengard
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Arja Rautio: Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
Natalia Kukarenko: Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Northern Arctic Federal University, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia
Lena Maria Nilsson: Arcum, Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Birgitta Evengard: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 2, 1-8

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: gender; Arctic; health; policy; human rights; quality; economic benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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