Temperature anomalies undermine the health of reproductive-age women in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is expected to undermine population health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries, but relatively few analyses have directly examined these effects using individual-level data at global scales, particularly for reproductive-age women. To address this lacuna, we harmonize nationally representative data from the Demographic and Health Surveys on reproductive health, body mass index (BMI), and temporary migration from 2.5 million adult women (ages 15 to 49) in approximately 109,000 sites across 59 low- and middle-income countries, which we link to high-resolution climate data. We use this linked dataset to estimate fixed-effect logistic regression models of demographic and health outcomes as a function of climate exposures, woman-level and site-level characteristics

SUBMITTER: Gray C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10945799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature