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This paper is a scoping review of social vulnerability to the health effects of climate change. The review provides an overview of the state of literature on social vulnerability indicators published in English between 2012 and 2022. An initial corpus of 1307 studies were identified from four bibliographic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed and CAB direct) and after screening 205 relevant studies were identified that contained social vulnerability indicators that mediated between climate change impacts and health outcomes. A frequency analysis was conducted to show the overall scope of the research and a thematic analysis of the results was conducted to examine substantive trends within the literature. A total of 125 indicators of social vulnerability were identified yet a relatively small set of indicators received most of the attention. Indicators that operationalized social vulnerability beyond individual and demographic characteristics were found to be under-researched and needed to further support climate resilience and adaptation planning.

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