At the (MNSOPHE)'s 2020 virtual Health Education Summit on Thursday October 22, 2020, St. °µÍø½ûÇø's Master of Public Health faculty members and and MPH student Julie Henderson, RN, BSN presented a poster titled
As part of their collaboration, Allen, Munala, and Henderson analyzed the effects of severe weather events on the prevalence of domestic violence in Kenya. IPUMS-DHS data and GPS data from 2008 and 2014 as well as data from EM-DAT were used to create variables in Stata. The outcomes of interest were whether a woman aged 15-49 who had ever been married or lived with a family experienced at least one form of domestic violence (DV) in the past 12 months. The predictor variables were [incidence of severe weather] in the year of data collection and if there was a change in severe weather in the two years leading up to the year of DV data collection. T
Their findings support that the effect of climate change — in this case, severe floods — are associated with a rise in domestic violence.