Extreme heat and antenatal care utilization: Highly unequal impacts across LMICs
Heat exposure during gestation reduces antenatal care use in LMICs, with pronounced effects among the most vulnerable populations.
During this seminar, Dr Abdel Ghany presents findings from a study on extreme heat exposure during pregnancy and antenatal care utilization in 52 low and middle income countries. To that end, she merged data from Demographic and Health Surveys with high-resolution, gridded environmental data for each pregnancy. Findings indicate that heat exposure above 35°C during gestation is typically associated with a reduction in antenatal care visits, but large inequities exist. In some regions, mothers intensify antenatal care utilization under extreme heat, highlighting that responses are not uniform across contexts. This study underscores the need for targeted interventions to ensure maternal healthcare access in the most vulnerable populations under intensifying climate stress.
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany
Jasmin Abdel Ghany is a Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology (at Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and an Associate Member of the Department of Sociology and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science in Oxford. Dr Abdel Ghany’s research is concerned with environmental early life exposures and their role for social inequalities and stratification. A central interest is to understand how the natural environment shapes health and social stratification at birth and throughout the life-course.
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