Background: As growing numbers of people may be forced to migrate due to climate
change and variability, it is important to consider the disparate impacts on health for
vulnerable populations, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This scoping
review aims to explore the relationship between climate migration and SRH.
Methods: We searched PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, Web of Science,
Scopus, Global Health and Google for peer-reviewed and gray literature published before
2nd July 2021 in English that reported on SRH in the context of climate migration.
Data were extracted using a piloted extraction tool and findings are reported in a
narrative synthesis.
Results: We screened 1,607 documents. Ten full-text publications were included
for analysis: five peer-reviewed articles and five gray literature documents. Reported
SRH outcomes focused on maternal health, access to family planning and antiretroviral
therapy, sexual and gender-based violence, transactional sex, and early/forced marriage.
Recommendations to improve SRH in the context of climate migration called for
gender-transformative health systems, education and behavior change programmes,
and the involvement of local women in policy planning and programme implementation.
Discussion: While the disparate impacts of climate change and migration are
well-established, primary data on the scope of impact due to climate migration is
limited. The SRH outcomes reported in the literature focus on a relatively narrow range
of SRH domains, emphasizing women and girls, over men. Achieving holistic and
equitable SRH in the context of climate migration requires engaging all genders across
the range of SRH outcomes and migration contexts. This review highlights the need
for further empirical evidence on the effect of climate migration on SRH, with research
that is context-specific and engages communities in order to reflect the heterogeneity of
outcomes and impact in the climate-migration-SRH nexus.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:89044 |
| Date | 16 January 2024 |
| Creators | van Daalen, Kim Robin, Dada, Sara, Issa, Rita, Chowdhury, Maisoon, Jung, Laura, Singh, Lucy, Stokes, Diarmuid, Orcutt, Miriam, Singh, Neha S. |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 757153 |
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