Presentation

The health impacts of climate change on precarious outdoor workers in urban megacities in Vietnam

Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this project investigates vulnerabilities and multiple health exposures of outdoor workers in urban areas in Vietnam.

Motorbike taxi and courier riders in the heat; Hanoi, Vietnam.

Publishing date:

1 January 2024

This is an ongoing project led by NatCen International in collaboration with the University of Bristol, and partners based in Vietnam, Social Life Research Institute and Institute for Development and Community Health "Light".

Focus

Precarious outdoor workers in urban areas of the Global South are one of the groups most exposed to the impacts of climate change. But the impact is thinly understood and policies to address such exposure under-developed.

This project explores the (in)visible vulnerabilities and multiple health exposures of these workers in Vietnam, a lower-middle income country (LMIC) experiencing rapid urbanisation and with a large informal sector.

Focus on street venders, riders and porters and construction workers in Hanoi (in the North), Da Nang (Central), Ho Chi Minh City (South) and Can Tho (Mekong Delta Region).

Outputs

Working paper from findings of systematic reviews
Policy Papers for the 4 city governments and government ministries (health, climate, labour)
Ethnographic documentary film and video diaries
GIS-integrated Workers Health App
Annual Green Books
Research website
Policy Toolkit
4x journal articles to international peer-reviewed journals
2x journal articles to Vietnamese national journals