Often the populations who experience This policy brief will explore the direct and indirect the highest exposure to hazards, have the least impacts of climate change on maternal and access to resources to successfully adapt.5 newborn health outcomes; highlight existing policies Women and girls often face increased risks and working to prevent or mitigate these impacts; and strains from the impacts. [...] Increased severity However, analysis of wildfires in the United States of floods may lead to standing water, which over the last 20 years have found associations can increase infection and disease, and creates between exposure to wildfire smoke and preterm barriers to accessing maternal health services.12 birth and low birthweight.20 In Colorado, a five-year And as the geographic spread of mosquit. [...] Additionally, those who and other health professionals to address these remain in disaster-impacted regions may be faced risks; establish a consortium at the National with increased power outages, which impacts both Institutes of Health to advance research on the a pregnant person’s ability to travel to a healthcare impacts of climate change on maternal and infant facility and their access to a sa. [...] Efforts of climate change on maternal and newborn such as the Climate, Heat, and Maternal and health, the framework does aim to address Neonatal Health in Africa project (CHAMNHA) the disproportionate impact of climate change aim to assess and quantify the impact of heat on women and girls, and empower them to stress on health outcomes, including outcomes become leaders in addressing these impacts. [...] Create and implement policies in the United initiatives to reduce exposure to extreme heat, States and globally to address the impact air pollution, and other climate-related threats to of climate change on maternal and newborn maternal and newborn health.
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