Mitigating Climate Change Effects on Maternal and Prenatal Health in Nigeria

Adebayo, Adebanke L.

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“…These interventions need significant awareness and knowledge sharing and, therefore could explain why social behavior change campaigns and education ranked among the top recommended interventions. Creating awareness through public education on practices such as avoiding heat and rehydration to replenish lost body fluids have been suggested to reduce illness related to thermal stress ( 9 , 30 ).…”

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“…Participants felt that both water and social behavioral change campaigns should be a priority intervention that can be sustainable, while on the other hand they were very clear on interventions considered not fit for this context. For example, where interventions such as installing air fans and painting roofs white have been used elsewhere and found to have a positive effect ( 30 ), in this context, it was not deemed appropriate. This revelation shows that, although the effect of heat exposure across the communities may be the same, interventions may vary based on the context they will adapt to and there is no “one size-fits-all” interventions.…”

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Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

Lusambili,

Khaemba,

Agoi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundAmbient heat exposure is increasing due to climate change and is known to affect the health of pregnant and postpartum women, and their newborns. Evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent heat health outcomes in east Africa is limited. Codesigning and integrating local-indigenous and conventional knowledge is essential to develop effective adaptation to climate change.MethodsFollowing qualitative research on heat impacts in a community in Kilifi, Kenya, we conducted a two-day codesign workshop to inform a set of interventions to reduce the impact of heat exposure on maternal and neonatal health. Participants were drawn from a diverse group of purposively selected influencers, implementers, policy makers, service providers and community members. The key domains of focus for the discussion were: behavioral practices, health facilities and health system factors, home environment, water scarcity, and education and awareness. Following the discussions and group reflections, data was transcribed, coded and emerging intervention priorities ranked based on the likelihood of success, cost effectiveness, implementation feasibility, and sustainability.ResultsTwenty one participants participated in the codesign discussions. Accessibility to water supplies, social behavior-change campaigns, and education were ranked as the top three most sustainable and effective interventions with the highest likelihood of success. Prior planning and contextualizing local set-up, cross-cultural and religious practices and budget considerations are important in increasing the chances of a successful outcome in codesign.ConclusionCodesign of interventions on heat exposure with diverse groups of participants is feasible to identify and prioritize adaptation interventions. The codesign workshop was used as an opportunity to build capacity among facilitators and participants as well as to explore interventions to address the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women, and newborns. We successfully used the codesign model in co-creating contextualized socio-culturally acceptable interventions to reduce the risk of heat on maternal and neonatal health in the context of climate change. Our interventions can be replicated in other similar areas of Africa and serve as a model for co-designing heat-health adaptation.

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Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

Lusambili,

Khaemba,

Agoi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Also, World Bank made in-roads into the states for urban development programmes with site and services projects in Bauchi and Imo states that are struggling to development due to their current level of socio-economic and political development that failed to adopt smart digital technology in urban governance. In addition the fourth National Development Plan clearly stated the objective of Urban and Regional Planning by defining the role of physical planning as a mechanism to achieving national development objectives as well as putting forward some policy measures that were of planning interest (Adebayo, 1999). From 1999 to date Nigeria has adopted a number of strategies for national…”

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Smart Cities and Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria: Evidences from some selected Countries.

Okewale,

ATOBATELE

2022

ASHU- ES

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The rate at which cities are growing over decades with unprecedented increase in the use of utilities such as water, energy, education, housing, sanitation etc. calls for concern. The unprecedented population growth has led to the agitation for smart cities where little efforts will be utilized to achieve maximum output. However the government of Nigeria has put in place some measures to achieving smart city concept that will assist the citizens to live better life that will lead to a robust socio-economic, despite this feat the country has not explored the concept maximally to increase better living that will engender a robust socio-economic development. Sequel to this background that this study examines the role plays by smart cities in ensuring socio-economic development in Nigeria. The secondary data used in this study was gathered from existing publications. Being a qualitative research, content analysis was employed in the interpretation of the data. It was revealed that smart city arrangement in Nigeria is poor, hence this affect socio-economic activities most especially in the areas of trade and commerce, education, security, health to mention but a few. The study therefore recommends that government should encourage private sector through public private partnership to achieve this feat.

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“…Women and children are two of the most vulnerable groups negatively impacted by climate change events (Adebayo 2021). According to the World Population Prospectus by the United Nations (UN) (2022), the data for 2020-2021 reveal that within one year, both the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and global births have fallen by 0.03 births per thousand and 1,158,000 births, while both the number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate have fallen.…”

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The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations

2023

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She is also an Honorary Consultant Researcher with the Ni3 Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK, an institution that addresses domestic violence. She is developing a body of work on the social impacts of climate change for vulnerable populations. This seeks to highlight, but is not confined to, the links between gender inequalities and climate change. Dr. Joseph has undertaken work in the areas of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, women fisher folk, environmental sustainability, disasters, and climate change. Furthermore, she has completed studies of tropical Storm Erika-Dominica; Hurricane Maria-Dominica; and undertaken a Family Case Study and discussed the impact of female-headed households post-Hurricane Maia-Dominica. She received the "Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management" for the year 2019.Dr. Roshnie A. Doon is currently an independent researcher in the field of Labour Economics. She holds a PhD in Economic Development Policy, an MSc in Economics, and a BSc in Economics from the University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad. She pursued a master class in International Business from the Henley School of Business at the University of Reading, U.K., and is currently an affiliate of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany, and an executive committee member of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), Trinidad and Tobago Chapter. Her academic interests are focused on applied and empirical economics, with work in the areas of labour, gender, and education economics. She has published research on a wide range of areas, which include higher education instruction, economic implications of COVID-19, returns to schooling, educational mismatch, STEM education, wage inequality, gender wage gaps, and economic development policy. ix ForewordIt is a privilege to be able to continue to contribute to the body of literature addressing vulnerability and marginality in the climate change field. As an interdisciplinary scholar in both Environmental studies and Africana and Latin American studies, my work sits at the nexus of environmental psychology, environmental justice, and natural resource management. Over the past decade and a half, the bulk of my work has been with marginalized and vulnerable communities in the Caribbean and the US as they experience climate change impacts and other environmental injustices such as food access and the impacts of oil and gas drilling. My scholarship examines the ways in which fishers in the Caribbean are disproportionately impacted by climate change and highlights the everyday strategies that are used to adapt to impacts that they experience.This text, The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations: Social Responses to a Changing Environment by Debra D. Joseph and Roshnie A. Doon, continues to center climate change and its impact on vulnerable and marginalized communities. Climate change is an existential threat to the world; if not addressed, it has the potential to cause irreparable damage to ecosystems and...

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Mitigating Climate Change Effects on Maternal and Prenatal Health in Nigeria

Cited by 4 publications

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Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

Smart Cities and Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria: Evidences from some selected Countries.

The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations

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