Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Glob Health Action. 2010 Dec 9;3. doi: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5720.
Population health is a primary goal of sustainable development. United Nations international conferences like the Beijing Platform for Action have highlighted the key role of women in ensuring sustainable development. In the context of climate change, women are affected the most while they display knowledge and skills to orient themselves toward climate adaptation activities within their societies.
To investigate how the gender perspective is addressed as an issue in research and policy-making concerning climate change and global health.
A broad literature search was undertaken using the databases Pubmed and Web of Science to explore the terms 'climate change,' 'health,' 'gender,' and 'policy.' Climate change and health-related policy documents of the World Health Organization (WHO) and National Communications and National Adaptation Programs of Action reports submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of selected countries were studied. Assessment guidelines to review these reports were developed from this study's viewpoint.
The database search results showed almost no articles when the four terms were searched together. The WHO documents lacked a gender perspective in their approach and future recommendations on climate policies. The reviewed UN reports were also neutral to gender perspective except one of the studied documents.
Despite recognizing the differential effects of climate change on health of women and men as a consequence of complex social contexts and adaptive capacities, the study finds gender to be an underrepresented or non-existing variable both in research and studied policy documents in the field of climate change and health.
人口健康是可持续发展的主要目标。联合国的国际会议，如《北京行动纲要》，强调了妇女在确保可持续发展方面的关键作用。在气候变化的背景下，妇女受到的影响最大，而她们拥有知识和技能，可以在社会中开展适应气候变化的活动。
调查在研究和制定与气候变化和全球健康相关的政策时，如何将性别视角作为一个问题来处理。
使用 Pubmed 和 Web of Science 数据库进行广泛的文献检索，以探索“气候变化”、“健康”、“性别”和“政策”等术语。研究了世界卫生组织（WHO）的气候变化和健康相关政策文件，以及选定国家提交给联合国气候变化框架公约的国家信息通报和国家适应行动计划报告。从本研究的观点出发，制定了评估这些报告的准则。
数据库搜索结果显示，当四个术语一起搜索时，几乎没有文章。WHO 文件在其方法和未来的气候政策建议中缺乏性别视角。所审查的联合国报告在性别观点上也持中立态度，除了其中一份研究文件。
尽管认识到气候变化对妇女和男子健康的不同影响是复杂的社会背景和适应能力的结果，但研究发现，在气候变化和健康领域的研究和研究政策文件中，性别都是一个代表性不足或不存在的变量。
