Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health from a Gender Perspective: The East African Context

Abstract
Climate change poses serious consequences for humans and ecosystems. For this reason climate change has been an issue of considerable international debate that have dominated the environmental agenda since the mid-1980s. In the context of the significant attention to climate change, it is also debated that men and women are faced with different vulnerabilities to climate change impacts due to existing inequalities such as, their role and position in society and access to resources. Although both men and women are exposed to climate change, women are more vulnerable to the change due to the difference in social roles between them. However, many recent researches fail to identify and analyse separately the population who are at greater risk of climate change. The purpose of this study is to fill this research gap and increase our understanding of climate change and health in relation to gender in the East African region.