Women's health and climate adaptation strategies

Addressing the health impacts of climate change on women in LMICs is urgent—not only to protect individual well-being but also because women’s health directly influences broader social and economic stability, given their vital caregiving roles.

Action is needed to develop adaptive strategies that safeguard women’s health and improve women-centric health outcomes in relation to climate change in LMICs. Adaptation in this context is crucial and would enable health systems to anticipate, prepare for and minimise the impacts of climate change on women’s health while also allowing for speedier recovery from these effects. 

There is an urgent need for policymakers and other stakeholders in LMICs to recognise and respond to the health impacts of climate change on women through targeted, collaborative and multisectoral approaches to adaptation that overcome barriers.

In this report, we present a framework for adaptation strategies with four main components (each with milestones) alongside three cross-cutting components with actionable responses (see Figure 2).